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 in the creating agency. Differences arise in endeavoring to form a conception of that intelligence. The thought of intelligence creating seems incredible, because under that idea the impression comes that the Creator must build the things created much as a man does a house, shaping this timber and that stone in an arbitrary way, and then bringing all together, while the fact appears that every atom is subject to and operates by fixed laws. This apparent difficulty will be removed later when the requisite data are brought forward. Sufficient for the present to make the point that the intelligence displayed in the effect must reside also in the Creator, or First Cause. "He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not He know?" Thus far there can be no difference of opinion. Later the nature of that intelligence will be considered.

The Creator, or First Cause, has also in Him the element of life. In order that the Creator may impart mineral, plant, and animal life. He must contain the essentials of these three degrees of life in Himself. No matter what life is, the Creator must be that life in the universal, highest, and purest form. Life in created things is a form of activity. All science so teaches. It