8 The Cause of Life and Motion 



tain properties existing in the body itself. An 

 atheist, while he readily accepts this absurd doctrine 

 that confers an eternal capability of action to matter, 

 is endowed with a fund of reason too searching to 

 see any evidence of a God in nature. He will pro- 

 foundly argue that his own mind is made up and 

 developed by the voluntary action of atoms as 

 they skip about in his brain. This extraordinary 

 stupidity in placing mind at the disposal of mat- 

 ter is somewhat akin to making the wind subor- 

 dinate to a wind-mill. 



Although no direct practical evidence of the 

 existence of a God has heretofore been vouch- 

 safed, the fact of His existence, has nevertheless 

 been asserted over and over again in all ages of 

 mankind, of which we have a record. Nature is 

 ever prompting the idea and is ever giving man 

 evidence of the fact, but it would seem after all, 

 that man was perversely blind to the many signs 

 before him, since the Power which instigates and 

 sustains all movement has been persistently ig- 

 nored as a direct and systematic element, while 



without it there could be nothing but chaos. 







In effect, we find it seriously asserted in some 

 of our massive books, that God in the beginning 

 implanted many properties in each atom of 

 matter, and that then, after aggregating them 

 into huge bodies, set them into motion, relying 

 on their individual properties for the keeping of 



