First and Last Things

ole trend of Science is to that belief. On the scientific plane one is a fatalist, the universe a system of inevitable consequences. But

ation as equivalent to the conception of a universe rigid in time and space.) If you ask me, I think I should say I

nd ideally clear and powerful, the whole universe would seem orderly and absolutely predestined? I incline to that belief. I do not harshly believe it, but I admit its large plausibility-that is all. I see no v

on rather to express a

knowable the next time I come to cross roads which I shall take. Possibly that knowledge actually exists somewhere. There are those who will tell you that they can get intimations in the matter from packs of cards or the palms of my hands, or see by peering into crystals. Of suc

concerned. You others are equally free. On that theory I find my life

and as a matter of fact so does everybody else. I regard myse