Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Scheme of Creation. [ARTICLE]

Scheme of Creation.

Every being exists not only for himself, but form* necessarily a portion of a great whole, of which the plan and the idea go infinitely beyond it, and in which it is destined to play a part. It in thus that inorganic nature exists not only for itself but to serve as a basis for the life of the plant and the animal; and in their service it performs functions of a kind greatly superior to those assigned to it by the laws which are purely physical andehemieal. In the same manner all nature, our globe, admirable as is its arrangement, is not the final end of creation; but it iajfoe condition of the existence of man. It serves as an instrument by which his education is accomplished, and performs in his service functions more exalted and more noble than its own nature, and for which it was made. It is, then, the superior being that solicits, so to speak, the creation of the inferior being, and associates it to his own functions; and it ie correct to say that inorganic nature is made for organised nature, and the whole globe for man, as both are made for God, the origin and end of all things.