CONSTITUENTS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



would have to follow, and not precede the 



making of a universe. This fact leaves the 



designing scheme in an exceedingly awkward 

 predicament. 



Design would cut no figure in making the 

 very things that are assumed to have been 

 designed. There is nothing fit or applicable 

 about it, although, like other accepted shams, 

 it has been a huge obstruction in the path of 

 progress. 



Design implies a beginning, or time when 

 there was nothing, and a later time when 

 something was got up out of nothing, and the 

 legitimate result of the whole scheme amounts 

 to nothing. 



What sort of a figure would a designer cut 

 in chemistry for instance? His best efforts in 

 producing even an image of a person would go 

 no farther than a tobacco sign. The whole 

 crude scheme is merely the result of wrong 

 views and the most superficial reasoning, or 

 none at all; precisely that kind which is sure 

 to mislead, and that is exactly what it has 

 done. 



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