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FACTS AND FANCIES. 



head of it. In another sense he is inferior to 

 the aggregate of nature, because, as Agassiz 

 well puts it, there is in the universe a " weahh 

 of endowment of the most comprehensive men- 

 tal manifestations which man can never fully 

 comprehend." 



Still further, if the universe has been created, 

 then, just as its laws must be in harmony with 

 the will of the Creator, so must our mental con- 

 stitution ; and man, as a reasoning and con- 

 scious being, must be made in the image of his 

 Maker. If we discard the idea of an intelligent 

 Creator, then mind and all its powers must be 

 potentially in the atoms of matter or in the 

 forces which move them ; but this is a mere 

 form of words signifying nothing, or, if it has 

 any significance, this is contrary to science, 

 since it bestows on matter properties which 

 experiment does not show it to possess. Thus 

 the existence of man is not only a positive 

 proof of the presence of mind in nature, but 

 affords the strongest possible proof of a higher 

 Creative Mind, from which that of man ema- 

 nates. The power which originated and sus- 

 tains the universe must be at least as much 

 greater and more intelligent than man as the 

 universe is greater than man in the power and 



