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16. I conclude this part of my subject with the forcible expres- 
sions of Carlyle : — “ But this I do say, and would wish all men to 
know and lay to heart, that he who discerns nothing but mechanism 
in the universe has in the fatallest way missed the secret of the 
universe altogether. That all Godhood should vanish out of men's 
conception of the universe seems to me precisely the most brutal 
error. I will not disparage heathenism by calling it a heathen 
error that men could fall into. It is not true ; it is false at the 
very heart of it. A man who thinks so will think wrong about all 
things in the world ; this original sin will vitiate all other conclu- 
sions he can form.'”* 
b. The Loss of such Civilization through the Fall. Early 
Degradation of Mankind. 
17. I accept the declaration in Genesis that man was made in 
the image and after the likeness of Elohim, and this in connec- 
tion with having dominion. I shall not, therefore, err (as I 
trust) in regarding the power and wisdom of the Infinite Adyoe 
as “ shadowed f forth ’’ in the masculine mind, and the grace 
and sense of harmony so manifest in nature, as reflected \ in the 
feminine understanding. Perhaps it ought scarcely to be taken for 
granted in this argument that beauty and harmony are inwrought 
everywhere in nature for their own sakes ; but some other occasion 
may be given for showing why the utilitarian theory of the 
world's constitution, in denying this proposition, does not appear 
to be other than “ false at the very heart of it.” 
18. No utilitarian reason can be assigned for the fatal gift of 
beauty bestowed on the daughters of Eve. The able author of 
the Victoria Institute paper “ On the Principles of Modern 
Pantheistic and Atheistic Philosophy '' has very well (though 
incidentally) shown that the world would have gone on quite as 
well in the above sense without this endowment ; and we directly 
trace the connection of, — I will not say the fall of our first parents, 
but the depravation of their descendants to this proximate cause ; 
for “ it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of 
the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of 
God saw the daughters of men, that they icere fair,§ and they took 
them wives of all that they chose.” 
of the creation coeval with man lias already perished, and how rapidly he 
is exterminating what remains of his “ poor earth-born companions ” ; 
excepting those that minister to his desires. — (See Appendix C.) 
* Sartor Resartus, p. 160. + v. nbX in Ges. Lex. 
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