Metaphysical Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I will not say that we can understand the beginning or first cause; but evidently it is easier to understand that a Law, or Force, existed by which atoms were drawn to coherence, than to believe that the atoms came together without law.

It is easier to understand, and more reasonable to believe, that there was a law, or force, by which the primordial atoms were attracted to each other, thus giving existence to forms, than that the atoms took form without law, and afterwards became the creator of law. Therefore it is easier to understand and more reasonable to suppose that the first cause of all things is law, or a force, inherent in atoms, than that God is a form or a person from whom all law came.

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