Now, let us project our thought as far back into duration as we can--count the periods by any thinkable measurements, years, centuries, ages, aeons, anything you please that will help.

Have we arrived at a point when there is no world, no life, no intelligence?
Certainly not.

Somewhere in space, all that we see here and now will be seen to exist.

Go back from this point to a previous period, and then count back as far as you wish; there is yet time and space and intelligence.
"There is an eternal law of progress which holds good always and everywhere.

It has been operating all through the ages of the past.