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mordialgerm; so atleastMr. Darwin thinks; — whileMr. Wallace, 
on the other hand, sees in the production ot man the unquestion- 
able intervention of an external will. Our authors say, that 
though a pure act of Creation is inadmissible, yet Life without 
a living antecedent is equally inadmissible. And it is Life that 
we need. They can only say however that Life “ appears .” 
CHAPTER VI. 
25. We begin afresh at Chapter VI. — Our authors’ examination 
of the physical or seen Universe came to the conclusion, as we 
saw, that it offered no sphere for Immortality. It is finite, as 
has been fully shown, (both in the past and the future. It might 
have had, and seems to have had, self-developing powers or 
forces to some extent (p. 140), and they may be even greater 
than ive yet blow ; but they also will and must of themselves, 
according to the great physical principle of the Dissipation of 
Energy, come to an end. Yet as that end, and the 
bie If Universe end of the whole Visible Universe, is almost incon- 
lt a for° Immor- ceivably remote, it is not without interest to inquire — 
tais, yet may whether Future Life for the existence of intelligences, 
place 1 to ? 6 a (a life coming short indeed of immortality, but im- 
mf^ha F n Ut "ve mensely enduring),— whether a Future of higher 
now have? in intelligence into which we may at death develop,— 
be of higher and a Future in a rank of being connected with the 
intelligence, Universe, — may be, possibly, expected? And 
perhaps a prospect, after that, of a hope of transference to life in 
the Unseen Universe itself? 
26. First then, can there be in the present Visible Universe any 
intelligences superior to man? 
This question is approached by a series of observations show- 
ing that there are two kinds of organized machines; 
Universe ^can the action of one being calculable, and the action of 
chines caicuia- tlie other not calculable; the solar system, or a 
bie or incaicu- watch, being an example of the former, and a rifle 
charged for human use being an example of the 
latter. The action of the latter kind of organized machines 
(p. 150) cannot be calculated ; for it depends on delicate pro- 
cesses, some of which however may even be directed, not only by 
men, but also by intelligent agencies, such as “ angels,” (as some 
Mens ns to wou ^ sa y)> acting from beyond this visible physical 
Heaven, Hell, Universe. If such agents exist, as they may, they 
and Angels. evidently, however, do not belong to this visible* 
Universe ; for men, or beings analogous to man, are the 
* “ Visible ” seems used here in its vulgar sense l 
