This conception is
full of difficulties to thought. We cannot even agree whether creation
was in time or eternity. But all agree in this, that the invisible is
rapidly absorbing all the force at least of the visible universe, and
that when force is gone the corpse will not remain unburied. Indeed,
when the range of seeing puts the size of an atom at less than one
two-hundred-and-twenty-four-thousandth of an inch, and when the range
of thinking puts it at less than one six-millionth of an inch, many
prefer to consider an atom as a center of force and not as a material
entity at all. But, amid uncertainties, this is certain, that the
forces of the visible worlds are extraneous. They come out of the
invisible. They are all also returning to the invisible; that is what
light is doing in space, previously referred to. This incredibly
high-class energy is not banking up coal in the celestial ether as it
did on the earth, but is returning to the quick, mobile forces of the
invisible worlds. One thing more is certain, that the origin of all
the forces of the invisible is in personality; for the atom, it is
agreed, bears all the marks of being a manufactured article.
Different-sized shot could not have greater uniformity of structure and
constitution. And their whole behavior shows that they are controlled
by an admirable wisdom past finding out.
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