forces at work within it, by means of which the entire universe came into being.
The good gentlemen will thus find them selves driven into a very tight corner, and in order to get out of the dilemma they will be compelled to retreat to a certain extent from the position in which they have entrenched themselves, and say: "If you persist in having a God, you may give the name of God to this primary matter. " But this will not help to settle the question, for to have such a God as this is tantamount to having no God at all.
5. Look forth on some clear and beautiful night in autumn, and contemplate the star-bespangled sky; see how the innumerable heavenly bodies have all their appointed orbits, so that none of them interfere with the others. Examine, moreover, the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and see how everything suits its purpose! Even the smallest plant is formed in its every detail with the most perfect exactitude. And every little creature, down to the insect which crawls in the dust at our feet, is so made as best to fulfil the object for which it was created. "What a piece of work is a man! " exclaims Hamlet; " how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god ! " Thus, wherever we look around us in the immense, the boundless universe, we everywhere perceive object, design, and order.
