254 SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY 



As Tyndall admits : " The whole process of 

 evolution is the manifestation of a power ab- 

 solutely inscrutable to the intellect of man. As 

 little in our day as in the days of Job can man by 

 searching find this Power out. Considered funda- 

 mentally, then, it is by the operation of an insoluble 

 mystery that life on earth is evolved, species differ- 

 entiated, and mind unfolded from their prepotent 

 elements in the immeasurable past." 



In fine, God made the world ; and all our ex- 

 planations — all our attempts to get behind the 

 first mystery of creation and the continual miracles 

 of birth — are as vain as our attempts to solve the 

 mystery of matter. Ignoramus and Ignorahimus ! 



But this we know, that form including colour 

 has some special significance and is a mystery — an 

 emotional mystery of its own. We feel that form 

 and colour are more than mere form and colour ; 

 we feel that the shaping of things has some divine 

 significance. Wtfeel that the idea preceded the 

 form and is the Final Cause ; that form is not a 

 matter of mere mechanic variation, that there is 

 "a mysterious architectonic principle, which has 

 not yet been detected," which we may call, if we 

 will, the Imagination of God. When Tennyson 

 looked into a stream and saw it swarming with 

 strange water-creatures, he wondered at the imagi- 

 nation of the Almighty ; and it is not difficult to 



