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It follows that dead and living matter exhibit, for the most part, a community of structure and movement. 

 There is an obvious sympathy as between the inorganic and organic kingdoms. The subjective organic finds its 

 correlate in the objective inorganic. 



The inorganic and organic Idngdoms are adapted to each other. The eye and the Hght are made for and are 

 physiologically the counterparts of each other. The same is true of all the sense organs, and the objects on which 

 they act. There would be no need for eyes, ears, taste, smeUing, and touch bodies in animals if there was no light, 

 and no sounding, smelling, sapid, and extraneous substances outside the animals. Similarly, the inorganic and 

 organic movements, if not co-ordinated, would clash, oppose, and nullify each other. In nature the law of " least 

 action" is always at work, and neither in the inorganic nor organic kingdoms is matter or energy ever wasted. 

 The phenomena of heat, hght, magnetism, electricity, &c., are not confined to the inorganic kingdom. Plants 

 and animals both generate heat, and animals also generate electricity. 



It thus happens that the living plant and animal are in sympathy with everything around them. The in- 

 organic and organic kingdoms and physical and vital force reciprocate to quite an extraordinary extent, and prove 

 very conclusively that the universe is to be considered as a whole. The science of optics supplies us with the 

 microscope and telescope, and these in turn enable us to perceive and study infinitely minute near objects, and 

 infinitely vast distant objects : the electric telegraph not only connects all parts of the earth physically — it also 

 connects nations with common aims mentally, and, in a sense, enables them to annihilate time and space : the tele- 

 phone and wireless telegraphy permit them practically to speak into space and be heard and understood thousands 

 of miles away ; and the phonograph hterally enables them to embalm and preserve for long ages and future genera- 

 tions the human voice even to its most subtle inflections. In this way even the dead speaketh. The reciprocation 

 here alluded to is traceable to an intelligent Creator or First Cause, Who correlates and co-adapts everything, living 

 and dead. The palpable design every^vhere apparent in the universe negatives the idea that anything organic or 

 inorganic exists by chance. 



Everything had to be created according to a preconceived plan, and all the parts of the inorganic and organic 

 kingdoms had to be adapted to each other. The inorganic came first, then plants, then animals, and lastly man. 

 An atmosphere and soil had to be prepared for plants ; and an atmosphere, soil, and plants for animals. An 

 atmosphere and soil were required for the leaves and roots of plants, plants had to be produced for the food of animals, 

 and plants and animals were both necessary for the sustenance of man. A habitation and pabulum were required 

 for plants and animals, and special plants and animals had to be formed, and adapted to meet the exigencies of certain 

 external conditions, at particular periods. 



This necessitated the gradual cooling of the incandescent young earth, the preparation of various subtle gases 

 and fluids, the slow formation of soil and other solids, &c. The more simple plants and animals were necessary to 

 the existence of the more complex ones, and physical and vital changes followed each other in an endless but well- 

 ordered sequence until the universe, as we know it, was evolved. At no point in the great evolutionary process 

 has the Master-Builder's plan broken down. That, notwithstanding all that has been said of late years to the con- 

 trary, is sound in warp and woof. It is impossible, even by a stretch of the imagination, to regard the universe as 

 a chance product. 



§ 29. Magnetism, Electricity, Light, Heat, and Motion Correlated. 



The universality of magnetism, electricity, light, heat, and motion in the world necessitates a brief considera- 

 tion of these subjects. They all are the outcome of law and order, and, as such, afford important testimony of 

 Design and of the existence of a Creator or First Cause. If it can be shown that the subjects referred to all hang 

 together and are inorganic in their nature, and if, further, it can be demonstrated that they occur also in the organic 

 kingdom, and that the inorganic and organic kingdoms have much in common and are correlated, it goes without 

 saying that the great fabric of the universe is a designed whole, and the product, not of chance, but of an 

 Intelligent Designer. When in every direction in the inorganic and organic kingdoms law and order, and only law 

 and order, can be traced, and when it is seen that everything inorganic is carefully adapted to everything organic 

 and vice versd ; the most perfect correlation and co-adaptation being, in every instance, scrupulously carried out ; 

 it is next to impossible to ignore the manifestations of Intelligence which everywhere present themselves. This 

 condition of things acquires additional significance when it is pointed out that the hues of force produced by the 

 action of natural and artificial magnets and electricity on iron-fihngs resemble in their general arrangement, and even 

 in their details, similar lines of force employed in the formation of crystals, plants, and animals ; . the fines of force 

 explaining in large measure not only the structure of crystals, plants, and animals, but also the chief movements 

 of the two latter. If law and order were confined to the inorganic and organic kingdoms respectively, there would. 



