CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



So-Called Design. 



fHE assumption so thoughtlessly and com- 

 monly made that there is evidence of DE- 

 SIGN in the universe, is squarely met by 

 the logical answer that there would be in that 

 case an equal, if not a still better reason for 

 assuming that a much greater designer would 

 have been required to design the alleged de- 

 signer, and so on AD INFINITUM. 



But what possible connection could a de- 

 signer have with space? In fact it is impos- 

 sible to conceive how a universe would require 

 that space should or could have been designed 

 at all; and yet space is one of the great essen- 

 tials, the great base of operations, as it were. 

 Nothing could have preceded it, and instead 

 of being designed, it would necessarily have 

 preceded all designers that ever could be 

 designed. 



Space certainly required no designing and 

 was not dependent upon any contingency. 

 The same can be said of time, another of the 

 great essentials. 



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