MECHANISM OF NATURE 



changes, the most immediate of which we can cal- 

 culate and observe. 



But there is order in the Universe; because the 

 number of material forms is a finite fixed number, 

 and because of that, there can be no new manifesta- 

 tion of force. 



Let it be granted that the Universe can produce 

 a new form. 



Then the Universe is able to produce an infinite 

 number of new forms, and these new forms must 

 produce new environments to alter every old form. 

 (Hypothesis.) 



And no natural law can be universal in applica- 

 tion yesterday, to-day and to-morrow for at 

 midnight evolution gave birth to something that 

 upset the whole arrangement. (Hypothesis.) Sev- 

 en undivided identities cannot produce a cube; 

 neither can a square be made of equilateral tri- 

 angles or circles. 



Primary spheres cannot be built up in an endless 

 variety of atoms, for there is a limit to the number 

 that can be each to two others in closest contact. 



There is a harmony of sounds as certain as the 

 increase of squares ; there is a law of colors as cer- 

 tain as the law of forms; because, both sound and 

 colors are the certain, inevitable product of one 

 whole force, through certain material forms. 



Truth and beauty are not creatures of popular 

 opinion, and all the courts may not change a funda- 

 mental law of our being. 



Inseparably, force and matter and living identity 

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