of elementary constitution, of atmosphere, of mass
of water and requisite distance from its source of heat as to insure a
stability of constitution and uniformity of temperature for a given
minimum of millions of years, or of ages, as would be required for the
full development of a life world from amoeba to man, with a surplus
of a few hundreds of millions for his adequate development.

"We are led, therefore, to postulate a body of what we may term
organizing spirits, who would be charged with the duty of so influencing
the myriads of cell souls as to carry out their part of the work with
accuracy and certainty....

"At successive stages of the development of the life world, more and
perhaps higher intelligences might be required to direct the main lines
of variation in definite directions, in accordance with the general
design to be worked out, and to guard against a break in the particular
line, which alone could lead ultimately to the production of the human
form.

"This speculative suggestion, I venture to hope, will appeal to some of
my readers as the very best approximation we are now able to formulate
as to the deeper, the most fundamental causes of matter and force of
life and consciousness, and of man himself, at his best, already a
little lower than the angels, and, like them, destined to a permanent
progressive existence in a world of spirit."

This very peculiar and apparently progressive statement in regard to the
conclusion which naturalistic science had revealed in regard to the
universe struck Eugene as pretty fair confirmation of Mrs. Eddy's
contention that all was mind and its infinite variety and that the only
difference between her and the British scientific naturalists was that
they contended for an ordered hierarchy which could only rule and
manifest itself according to its own ordered or self-imposed laws, which
they could perceive or detect, whereas, she contended for a governing
spirit which was everywhere and would act through ordered laws and
powers of its own arrangement. God was a principle like a rule in
mathematics--two times two is four, for instance--and was as manifest
daily and hourly and momentarily in a hall bedroom as in the circling
motions of suns and systems. God was a principle. He grasped that now. A
principle could be and was of course anywhere and everywhere at one and
the same time. One could not imagine a place for instance where two
times two would not be four, or whe