48 ORGANIC EVOLUTION CONSIDERED 



the finite past, for the evident reason that they cannot 

 have radiated light and heat through infinite time and 

 still be highly heated. The present energy of the 

 heavenly bodies has been stored in them within a 

 finite past, and must be dissipated within a finite 

 future. The present condition of the universe is 

 temporal. There must, therefore, be a power unseen 

 and eternal, unconditioned, that has established the 

 visible universe in its present condition. The uni- 

 verse as it now is cannot be explained according to 

 known physical laws. We must assume something 

 more than matter and ether in motion — we must at 

 least predicate a cause of motion. 



