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all things in equilibrium. We are not told what 

 became of God after this, but we are led to sup- 

 pose that he went away into some mysterious 

 seclusion, leaving all creation to take care of 

 itself. 



This pertinacity in ignoring the presence of 

 the Almighty is peculiarity characteristic of the 

 modern scientist, who will industriously explore 

 every narrow path leading away from the great 

 highway of Truth, while he blindly passes the 

 wider paths leading to it. 



When we seek the foundation of facts, we are 

 referred by the scientists to the " fundamental 

 and immutable laws of nature." And what is the 

 conventional meaning of these terms other than 

 an implication of absurdity? Let us now ex- 

 amine a few of these laws as they are generally 

 represented by science. 



The Earth's Movements. 



Respecting the Earth's movements, it would 

 appear that, in the first place, she was given a 

 daily movement about her axis, and an annual 

 movement around the sun. A momentum was 

 thus established by which under favorable cir- 

 cumstances she would maintain her movements 

 forever. Any one less learned than a scientist 



