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face of its parent country, adding the relation 

 of direct derivation to the other ties that bind 

 the whole into one great natural development. 

 Of course in all this, whether taken from the 

 history of a hill, a river, valley, or a continent, 

 we are treating of inorganic forces and devel- 

 opments; life has as yet not come into the 

 question. 



And now, before we carry our subject be- 

 yond the line that separates the organic from 

 'the inorganic, let us sum up our conclusions 

 drawn from this part of our subject. 



With our minds directed especially to the 

 truths of chemistry, we may state that it was 

 once believed God created granite directly 

 from nothing. The educated world now be- 

 lieves that God created the ultimate atoms and 

 the forces that governed their relations, and 

 that these acted on by their surroundings 

 made the granite. The difference is surely 

 this: The older belief ascribes to God the 

 creation of innumerable separate facts; the 

 newer thought ascribes to God the creation 

 of a system that results in these facts. 



