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principle that nature's laws are uniform, undeviating and universal in
their action, does not the analogy of earthly tribunals logically
necessitate the belief that our globe is but a province of the infinite
empire governed by righteous laws, of which enlightened human laws are a
partial revelation.

Modern science teaches the oneness of the universe and the identity and
sameness of the matter composing it. What then can be more strictly
scientific and demonstrable from materialistic premises than the vast
conclusion that uniform passive matter, operated upon by the same
undeviating laws, must in all worlds produce the same results and evolve,
as it has on our planet, intelligence in which a sense of right and
justice shall predominate, and everywhere and in all time, enact and
execute laws discriminating between right and wrong? What astronomical
prediction, then, can be more certain of fulfillment than this moral
prophecy of the final eclipse of evil and ultimate triumph of the right?
With no existing power to arrest or mitigate the sentence of this
relentless, carboniferous judge, how fearful may be the possible fate of
those who disregard the moral laws of protoplasm. Matter has evolved a
Franklin and a Morse, who learned to wield the lightning's power. Why may
there not have been evolved in the infinite past a more profound
electrician, who, with his battery and etherial wires can shiver a planet
with his touch? A marvelous power--the human spirit--has gained a vast
control over the blind, stubborn substances and forces that created it,
and by its immaterial, invisible will, can in a limited degree overrule
the most imperious law of nature by throwing a stone into the air. Is it
unscientific, then, or derogatory to the vaunted potency of matter to
affirm that the eternal ages may have developed an intelligent will that
can project a planet or sun, as the human will and muscle project the
pebble? Scoff not, exalted sages, at the weak terrors of those who tremble
at the dogma of a malignant devil; consider that pity and compassion are
not the known chemical constituents of this soulless creator. Where, then,
can we fix the limit of that unconscious, fiendish force that evolved a
Nero, and incarnated in human bodies the myriads of demoniac spirits that
walk the earth to-day? Egotistical scientist (sciolist) calm the cyclone,
quiet the engulphing earthquake, blot from human history the records of
war, pestilence, f