.MECHANISM OF NATURE 



tinuous plant and animal life depends on continual 

 reproduction. 



But we cannot directly perceive organized mat- 

 ter disorganizing into void matter, or any organ- 

 ized matter coming into existence from void matter. 



If the earth organizes the void matter coming to 

 it from the sun, where is that newly organized 

 matter? 



The earth does not grow perceptibly in circum- 

 ference nor density, for an increase in mass must 

 make a change in its orbit. 



Hypothesis and theories may be useful as a 

 basis for investigation, yet a known truth can only 

 be a real stepping stone to truth. 



Are comets new born worlds ? Are meteors frag- 

 ments of dead worlds? Our answers are as yet 

 little more than theory. And yet comets and me- 

 teors testify of life and death. 



All force is universal force, and all matter is 

 universal matter. 



Therefore, if organized bodies in plant life and 

 animal life give life to similar bodies, that power 

 must be possessed also by organized bodies which 

 have not the same kind or degree or measure of 

 life as plants and animals have ; and atoms of 

 hydrogen must at some time have power to or- 

 ganize other atoms of hydrogen. 



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