MECHANISM OF NATURE 



it in the second place engage living identities in 

 the Universe ? The true answers to these questions 

 constitute all of science, and no human can ever 

 get more than a passing glimpse of this ocean of 

 truth. 



Because of this ignorance, this inability to grasp 

 all, man has ever turned to occultism and sub- 

 stituted for geometrical solution of problems a 

 lazy turning over of the radical underlying ques- 

 tions, to inherent powers of material, or to motions 

 the result of these powers. 



The endless controversy between Pharisee and 

 Sadducee can only be decided by the truth which 

 is in neither one of these schools of thought. 



The questions of the conservation of force and 

 of the stability of the amount of ultimate matter 

 in the Universe can never be solved, nor can they 

 be fully and irrevocably recognized as truths, 

 unless both are held as the product of an ultimate 

 primary cause. 



Force is known to us only as change, and every 

 change necessitates a former change, and a change 

 to follow. There is then ever a necessity for the 

 infinite in all finite reasoning, and force becomes, 

 in the ultimate equation of human logic, a flow of 

 material from the infinite to the infinite. No sub- 

 division of ether, no invention of new names and 

 phrases, no discovery of unknown manifestations 

 of force, can do away with the necessity of a solid 

 background from which force may act. 



Then either human reason must clearly recog- 

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