There was no beginning; there can be no ending. There is a constant,
undeviating process of changing and readjustment of all the forces of
the universe. All is vibration. None of nature's forces are at rest,
at equilibrium. Build you a fine dwelling, and ere it is finished for
your occupancy, the disintegrating forces will have made a raid upon
the material of which it is constructed. Take notice of the signs of
decomposition going on in everything around you--the accumulation of
fluff in your rooms, in the innermost of your garments, along the
seams. So also do the rocks and mountains yield themselves to dust,
and so does all the planet reverberate with the resistless onward march
of the law of progress, unfoldment, evolution from the lower to a
higher form of expression.
Lands edging the seas and the inland waters, from their constant
erosion, slip away and are lost. Continents disappear, undermined by
earthquakes and similar convulsions of nature, and new lands arise from
the bowels of some faraway ocean to keep the balance even.