Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond.

  • Henry Drummond
Date:
1888
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Credit: Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”—Christ. “ In early attempts to arrange organic beings in some syste- matic manner, we see at first a guidance by conspicuous and simple characters, and a tendency towards arrangement in linear order. In successively later attempts, we see more re- gard paid to combinations of character which are essential but often inconspicuous; and a gradual abandonment of a linear arrangement.”—Herbert Spencer. On one of the shelves in a certain museum lie two small boxes filled with earth. A low mountain in Arran has furnished the first; the contents of the second came from the Island of Barbadoes. When examined with a pocket lens, the Arran earth is found to be full of small objects, clear as crystal, fashioned by some mysterious geometry into forms of exquisite symmetry. The substance is silica, a natural glass; and the prevailing shape is a six- sided prism capped at either end by little pyramids modelled with consummate grace. When the second specimen is examined, the revelation is, if possible, more surprising. Here, B B