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 attraction, chemical affinity, capillarity, osmosis, and atomicity alone or together can not do these things; for they are but attributes of matter, are limited to their own plane, and are as inferior to such results as an organ is to the music that is produced by it. It is clearly perceivable that there is an overruling, governing power that brings together all the separate kinds of nature's forces to the accomplishment of greater works than they alone are capable of, works showing too great design to come from the laws of nature operating at random. Therefore all concede that there is intelligence in the creative force, an intelligence that brings the various forces into harmonious action and design; for it needs no process of reasoning to see that there could not be intelligence in a thing created if there were not even greater intelligence in the creating power. There are those who, having perceived and forcibly felt the truth of this and the consequent absolute inadequacy of the materialistic origin of the higher forms, have attributed creation to a universal intelligence.

An abstract intelligence is unthinkable, yet since intelligence is a marked characteristic of the governing power, we know that it exists in the Creator, or the First Cause. It is asserted that sap and blood flow by osmosis and capillarity, and