NO “BEGINNING”
OR THE FUNDAMENTAL FALLACY.
BY WILLIAM H. MAPLE.
“The links of its logic are riveted very firmly together, and “No Beginning” is simply unanswerable.”
This work demonstrates the non-existence of a “first cause” for the material universe, and proves the oneness of God with Nature.
It denies supernaturalism in all its forms, and claims that reason alone leads to truth. Nature, it holds, is ever changing in form, but is eternal in substance, and in its entirety constitutes the only absolute.
It is believed to be the only book in existence claiming to prove, with the certainty of a mathematical demonstration and along common-sense lines of thought, the negative of the above mentioned old theological premise. In this respect it is at once a curiosity of literature and a powerful auxiliary in the cause of rationalism versus superstition.
Its aim is to aid in popularizing a reasonable conception of the universe in place of the old notion of its supernatural origin and control, to the end of lessening superstition and intolerance, and that both politics and ethics may be made to rest on scientific truth instead of pretended supernatural revelations.
It shows how the infallibility of the Pope and other cardinal church doctrines have grown out of the old belief in the “creation” of the universe out of nothing, and incidentally it is made to appear that religious controversy must eventually narrow down to an issue between Rationalism and Catholicism.