power--a spirit germ--nor would he believe in its potency if he knew it
were true. Then there is the man with the retorts and the scales, and
the "residues." He announces to the world that he can create life
without any help from the "Great Spirit" people talk so much about.
There is also the man with the bottle full of water, with a handful of
mud at the bottom. He is sure he can produce living organisms; might
even set agoing a new race of beings, if he only had time, and a larger
bottle! Back of every expression of life we know abides the source,
the cause of all existence, so hid, so truly an integral part of life
as never to yield a knowledge of itself either to the scalpel of the
physicians or to the electrical battery of the explorer of mysteries.
Into this sphere can no man come. Herein can be no meddling of the
human intellect.

Through this searching for the source, the cause of life, man has been
brought face to face with law, with a force he can never understand or
conquer, or adjust to the demands or suggestions of his will. From
ancient expressions of intelligence have been handed down to us the
name, the title, God, as a concrete expression of this power that holds
dominance over all created beings.

Another important revelation made to man is the fact that there is but
one law, _per se_.

It is an established, consecutive, endless chain from the beginnings of
human life here up to the absolute ultimate of the immortal soul. It
proves the homogeneity of the whole human race; it declares the value
of existence here, and explains the logical sequence of its continuance
beyond this fragment of life into nature's invisible realms.