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in its initial form, give unity to our thinking. It not only reduces 
the independent chemical elements to brotherhood in the one mother 
substance, but it renders matter, as essentially activity, homogenous 
with active mind, thus freeing us from the hopelessness of dualism, 
and giving a monistic view of the whole of things. And nowhere 
is utter death to be found. The universe, plastic, vital through and 
through, comes out from under the heavy hand of rigid mechanism. 
Spontaneity is at its heart and in the marrow of its bones. But 
lawless and chaotic.it is not. There is regularity in the operation of 
its minutest parts, and organization, harmonious co-working is the 
law of its being from the co-operative union of electrons into atoms 
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to the organization of men into societies, and probably further still. 
But the order and harmony are not imposed from without by an 
alien power ; as the laws of children ’s play they are the natural rules 
of behavior of spontaneous beings, following, unhampered by others 
besides themselves, the promptings of their own interacting natures. 
