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automatic organisms. If this were so, our apparent 
WILL would be a delusion, and Professor Huxley’s be- 
lief—‘‘ that our volition counts for something as a con- 
dition of the course of events,” would be fallacious, 
since our volition would then be but one link in the 
chain of events, counting for neither more nor less 
than any other link whatever. 
If, therefore, we have traced one force, however mi- 
nute, to an origin in our own WILL, while we have no 
knowledge of any other primary cause of force, it does 
not seem an improbable conclusion that all force may 
be will-force ; and thus, that the whole universe, is not 
merely dependent on, but actually is, the wit of higher 
intelligences or of one Supreme Intelligence. It has 
been often said that the true poet is a seer; and in the 
noble verse of an American poetess, we find expressed, 
what may prove to be the highest fact of science, the 
noblest truth of philosophy : 
God of the Granite and the Rose! 
Soul of the Sparrow and the Bee! 
The mighty tide of Being flows 
Through countless channels, Lord, from thee. 
It leaps to life in grass and flowers, 
Through every grade of being runs, 
While from Creation’s radiant towers 
Its glory flames in Stars and Suns. 
Conclusion. 
These speculations are usuaily held to be far beyond 
the bounds of science; but they appear to me to be 
more legitimate deductions from the facts of science, 
