The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 134

sixteen great-greatgrandparents and so on until
when, say, forty generations
are calculated the numbers of
ancestors run into many
millions, so it is with the
number of causes behind even
the most trifling event or
phenomena, such as the
passage of a tiny speck of soot
before your eye. It is not an
easy matter to trace the bit of
soot hack to the early period
of the world's history when it
formed a part of a massive
tree-trunk, which was
afterward converted into coal
and so on, until as the speck
of soot it now passes before
your vision on its way to other
adventures. And a mighty
chain of events, causes and
effects, brought it to its
present condition and the later
is but one of the chain of
events which will go to
produce other events
hundreds of years from now.
One of the series of events
arising from the tiny bit of
soot was the writing of these
lines, which caused the
typesetter to perform certain
work, the proofreader to do
likewise and which will arouse
certain thoughts in your mind

and that of others, which in
turn will affect others and so
on and on and on, beyond the
ability of man to think further
- and all from the passage of a
tiny bit of soot, all of which
shows the relativity and
association of things and the
further fact that "there is no
great, there is no small, in the
mind that causeth all."