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 had not quality in Himself. Hence it is certain that quality, as well as law, is in the Creator or First Cause.

That the Creator is not an unembodied force, is evident from the fact that force can not exist apart from an embodying substance. Force is but substance acting. It is intuitively perceived that an unembodied force can not exist, consequently it is known that the Creator, or the First Cause, is not an unembodied force.

It has been observed that neither law, nor quality, nor force exists apart from substance. Law is but the rule according to which substance acts. Quality is derived from the form of substance. Force is the action of a substance, or substance in action. As these have their origin in the Creator, they are in Him, or the First Cause, in their beginnings or elements; but as they can not exist apart from substance, it is conclusive that the Creator is substantial, or substance. Then as the First Cause is substantial, it is as the name implies the highest, purest, and primal substance of which law, quality, and