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must father these absurdities, for both the material senses
and their reports are unnatural, impossible, and unreal.
(The real producer)
Either Mind produces, or it is produced. If Mind is
first, it cannot produce its opposite in quality and quantity,
called matter. If matter is first, it cannot produce
Mind. Like produces like. In natural
history, the bird is not the product of a beast. In spiritual
history, matter is not the progenitor of Mind.
(The ascent of species)
One distinguished naturalist argues that mortals spring
from eggs and in races. Mr. Darwin admits this, but he
adds that mankind has ascended through all
the lower grades of existence. Evolution describes
the gradations of human belief, but it does not
acknowledge the method of divine Mind, nor see that material
methods are impossible in divine Science and that
all Science is of God, not of man.
(Transmitted peculiarities)
Naturalists ask: "What can there be, of a material
nature, transmitted through these bodies called eggs, -
themselves composed of the simplest material
elements, - by which all peculiarities of ancestry,
belonging to either sex, are brought down from
generation to generation?" The question of the naturalist
amounts to this: How can matter originate or transmit
mind? We answer that it cannot. Darkness and
doubt encompass thought, so long as it bases creation on
materiality. From a material standpoint, "Canst thou
by searching find out God?" All must be Mind, or
else all must be matter. Neither can produce the other.
Mind is immortal; but error declares that the material
seed must decay in order to propagate its species, and
the resulting germ is doomed to the same routine.
(Causation not in matter)
The ancient and hypothetical question, Which is first,
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