172 THE CREATION OF MATTER 



of existence, it must have been naturally divisible into 

 particles, and therefore composed of them, into particles 

 having in them the ordered potencies revealed in the 

 evolutions from them, and therefore we say the work 

 of mind. But if they lie at the very foundation, are 

 perfectly simple, and yet are the work of mind, they 

 must be so by creation. No other alternative is left. 

 Mind must have given them their being. 



Suppose a finite mind in the beginning seeking eternal 

 matter within His sphere. The question was, Should 

 He find it? Should He find it in sufficient quantity? 

 Should He find it in a state of chaos even 1 There might 

 have been but an insignificant mass at a point in space. 

 It was a pure chance that even it should exist. It was 

 a pure chance that many masses or one of large size 

 should have being. The chances were countless against 

 the amount existing in the universe being found. The 

 supposition therefore of a chaos, even of matter, having 

 being in the immensity of space, and a finite and relative 

 being existing, not at an infinite distance from it, but in 

 the same space, and through relationship to it able to 

 build it up into the kosmos we know, is one which the 

 rational mind cannot for a moment entertain. The 

 force of these considerations is increased in an enormous 

 measure when we take into account the wonderful, 

 multitudinous, and varied characteristics of the material 

 world, and specially if we affirm that life and every 

 faculty in living natures is an evolution from it. And 

 if vitality and mind are elements, then that so vast 

 an amount of different elements capable of being 

 brought together into beautiful working order should 

 have existed by chance from eternity, is absolutely 

 impossible. 



Creation demands infinite power. If I reach the fact 



