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FACTS AND FANCIES 



Intelligence, self-existent and omnipotent. This 

 may be the ultimate fact lying behind all mate- 

 rials, forces, and laws known to science. 



2. Mediate creation, or the making of new 

 complex products with material already created 

 and under laws previously existing. This is 

 applicable not so much to the primary origin 

 of things as to their subsequent determinations 

 and modifications. 



3. Both of the above may be included under 

 the expression "creation by law," implying the 

 institution from the first of fixed laws or modes 

 of action not to be subsequently deviated from. 



4. Theistic evolution, or the gradual devel- 

 opment of the divine plans by the apparently 

 spontaneous interaction of things made. This 

 is universally admitted to occur in the minor 

 modifications of created things, thougji of course 

 it can have no place as a mode of explaining 

 actual origins, and it must be limited within 

 the laws of nature established by the Creator. 

 Practically, it might be dijfiftcult to make any 

 sharp distinctions between such evolution and 

 mediate creation. 



5. Agnostic and monistic evolution, which 

 hold the spontaneous origination and differen- 

 tiation of things out of primitive matter and 



