The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-14

OF Delty-and let it create the "coSm1c
egg about itself as the nucleus or ger
mlnal spot, and then let the "cosmic
egg begin to create: First space, then
space matter or ae.her then concrete
mailer and the secondary force that Ia
conserved and last of all spirit, the pro-
ducts differing as preceding created en-
Vironment forced them to differ, and
with surplus left as specialization
went on and out, and the surplus would
give motion, momentum and direction
to created product. Time may be such
motion and surplus, momentum and d.
rection, such its very substance and it
self nearest Of all to the original stuff"
out Of which things We're created stand
Ing as 1t may for the first and last rem
nant of the original fund of creative en-
ergy.
But now time breaks up into past,
Iresent and future, and significant in
deed must the entity or environment be
that is able thus to break 1t in two
places: and the self-analysis ought, 1t
would seem, to give some hold upon the
being thus analized.
| What becomes of the past and where
does the future come from, and what
the pregnancy by which the future gives
birth to the present and the present
gives death to the past? How is this
movement of future into present and
present into past brought about?
The universe-men, mountains and
| Worlds-Seems to be carried on the thin
differential of the crest of a wave, the
present; why don't the universe slip
doWr the front Of the wave and become
| bo 1f t,1p
ole backward into oblivion and forget
itself?
Time is a string on which the uni
verse is strung and along which 1T tray
els from origin to goal. Where nature
| touches the string is the present, It's ex-
tension from nature to goal is the flu
| ture and from nature to origin is the
past.
To produce times break up into three
parts it relates with nature with ORR
gin, with goal becomes involved with
the Trinity.
| The absolute velocity Of times flux Is
a personal equation of natures Gre
ator, its natural gait in creation, and is
perhaps fundamental, Interchangeable,
| fixed in the nature of things and alb
solute in ita own right.
| Conceive the universe to have evolved
itself from the "cosmic egg" Ca figure
borrowed from biology on which to
hang concepts), time on which all
threads itself being itself created pro-
| duct sprung from the egg" then from
the standpoint of the "cosmic egg
there could be no past, present or fu-
ture, but back Of all relation the "eter-
nal now of the Creator. That is, there
is a getting out of and behind time.
II the "cosmic egg threw the uni
verse out in creative spasm then the
hold upon its product would tend even
tually to draw it back, and the out
ward and eventually inward trend Of
nature constitutes a great cycle which
is the string on which nature is strung.
Where nature began threading back
upon itself selfconsciousness began de-
veloping, and possibly there is a circu-
larity in .he universe as whole such
thai the threading back, the microcos-
ming, was after all progress in a
metaphysical straight line involving no
turning. All mathematicians knaively
know that a straight line is the circum-
ference of a circle with Infinite radius
and that circumference return upon
philosophers must admit that the uni
verse as whole INDUCES in none but
the most perfect action conceivable.
As the future embodies the goal and |
the past the origin of all things, the |
one embodies' the end, final cause, aeth-
les and religion; the other, the means,
efficient cause, science.
Just as space Is a stuff and embody- |
ment Of geometric relations, an aeth2r |
which concretes into the dimensions and |
forms of actual things; so time, which |
gears into and stimulates and perhaps |
ultimately initiates and keeps agoing |
the flux and concrete force men know |
AS conserved, is stuff and embodyment |
of purpose of efficient and final cause
an unfolding plan, an aether which coz
eretes into the mind in things with as
surance of harmonious development Of |
the whole to the ultimate end for which |
all Is.
Sc again time seems slipping into the
III tellectual arena, but it is intellectual
ism objec tivlzed, and so the warp AMI
wool of this warp and wool of all |
things appears to be mind more nearly
than ought else, and it is probable that
the substance of all things evntually re-
solves itself into the stuff of which
irtellectualism may be predicated, that
all nature, its warp and wool, is perme-
ated and composed of mind stuff"
There can be no doubt butS that this
mechanism men call the universe is q
thought concreted by and about Fiat
of Deity, and 1t may appear that this
nucleus of the 'cosmic egg" which cre
ated the creator from which nature
evolved itself and to which all nature
returns as to a goal, is the ultimate in"
carnated in the Christians Christ and
that time is simply the movement Of
the universe from the Creator to Christ
GEO M. WALLACE.
--------