CONSTITUENTS OP THE UNIVERSE. 



The only thing left then for an imaginary 

 designer to design, (and there is no other 

 breed of designers but imaginary ones) is 

 motion. Now motion is continuous, endless 

 and eternal, like both space and time. It 

 would require no designer to make it, and was 

 never made at all. It is simply self-existent. 



But suppose that it was designed and made 

 to order, as it were, the designing would 

 amount to nothing without the making or exe- 

 cuting; but that would have required an effort 

 equal to, or greater than the entire sum of 

 motion in the universe for all time . If that 

 would not amount to an absurdity, it is diffi- 

 cult to conceive what would constitute one. 



There is something more that is quite out 

 of joint with this design and designer pro- 

 gram. The difficulty is that it is purely 

 speculative and imaginary, while no two of its 

 votaries have the same views about it. In 

 point of fact, there is nothing in the universe 

 that a designer could do, and everything that 

 he could not do. Design is merely an animal 

 faculty, and in the very nature of things, 



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