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of creation, said Dr. Duncan, I reach the Infinite, for the 

 Infinite power alone is creative. (1) Creation demands 

 infinite perceptive power. He who can give a particle 

 existence must be able to perceive any measure of small- 

 ness. He sees it through its whole being and in its 

 every characteristic. His hand has touched through all 

 its borders, has touched its every point down to a point 

 infinitesimally small and bordering on nothing. There 

 is no small ness however small which He cannot perceive. 

 There is therefore no limit to His perceptive power. 

 (2) Every particle is of a relative nature and size. Its 

 measures to a related perceiving nature depend on the 

 perceptive power of that nature. But to Him who 

 created it, it must appear and be known absolutely. He 

 must therefore be of an absolute nature. (3) Creation 

 demands infinite power of will. Between nothing and 

 any solid magnitude, any real existence, the distance is 

 infinite, and to create something where before there was 

 nothing is to bridge that distance. No merely relative 

 power is equal to this work. It demands the energy 

 of an absolute nature. (4) Creative power is supremely, 

 is ideally great. No greater is possible. In calling 

 into being that which before was not, power does 

 its utmost. It rises to the loftiest height. Higher 

 power cannot go. No greater work can be done than 

 it accomplisheth. None harder can be conceived. It is 

 independent. It needs no external aid. It is absolute. 

 It does not act on forms of being because it happens 

 to be exactly related to them. It produces its own 

 forms. 



Our mode of argument, even on the contention that 

 the universe was built up out of pre-existing materials, 

 leads to the conclusion that its architect and builder is 

 infinite and absolute. We have shown that for inter- 



