arily affirms the presence and
action of Mind.

"Pythagoras had long devoted his intellectual adoration to the lofty
idea of Order. To his mind it seemed as the presiding genius of the
serene and silent world. He had from his youth dwelt with delight upon
the eternal relations of space and number, in which the very idea of
proportion seems to find its first and immediate development, until at
length it seemed as if the whole secret of the universe was hidden in
these mysterious correspondences. The world, in all its departments,
moral and material, is a living arithmetic in its development, a
realized geometry in its repose; it is a '_cosmos_' (for the word is
Pythagorean), the expression of harmony, the manifestation to sense of
everlasting order; and the science of _numbers_ is the truest
representation of its eternal laws." Therefore, argued Pythagoras and
the Pythagoreans, as the reason of man can perceive the relations of an
eternal order in the proportions of extension and number, the laws of
proportion, and symmetry, and harmony must inhere in a Divine reason, an
intelligent soul, which moves and animates the universe. The harmonies
of the world which address themselves to the human mind must be the
product of a Divine mind. The world, in its real structure, must be the
image and copy of that divine proportion which the mind of man adores.
It is the sensible type of the Divinity, the outward and multiple
development of the Eternal Unity, the Eternal One--that is, God.

The same argument is elaborated by Plato in his philosophy of beauty.
God is with him the last reason, the ultimate foundation, the perfect
ideal of all beauty--of all the order, proportion, harmony, sublimity,
and excellence which reigns in the physical, the intellectual, and the
moral world. He is the "Eternal Beauty, unbegotten and imperishable,
exempt from all decay as well as increase--the perfect--the Divine
Beauty"[892] which is beheld by the pure mind in the celestial world.

[Footnote 892: "Banquet," Sec. 35.]

(3.) The Teleological proof, or the argument based upon the principle of
intentionality or Final Cause, and is presented in the following form:

The choice and adaptation of means to the accomplishment of
special ends supposes an intelligent purpose, a Designing
Mind.

In the universe we see such choice and adaptation of means
to ends.

Therefore, the universe is the product of an intellig