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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    see the Kingdoms themselves evolving. And that supreme law which has guided the development from simple to complex in matter, in individual, in sub- Kingdom, and in Kingdom, until only two or three great Kingdoms remain, now begins at the begin- ning again, directing the evolution of these million- peopled worlds as if they were simple cells or organisms. Thus, what applies to the individual applies to the family, what applies to the family applies to the Kingdom, what applies to the King- dom applies to the Kingdoms. And so, out of the infinite complexity there rises an infinite simplicity, the foreshadowing of a final unity, of that “ One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.” 1 This is the final triumph of Continuity, the heart- secret of Creation, the unspoken prophecy of Christi- anity. To Science, defining it as a working principle, this mighty process of amelioration is simply Evolu- tion. To Christianity, discerning the end through the means, it is Redemption. These silent and patient processes, elaborating, eliminating, develop- ing all from the first of time, conducting the evolu- tion from millennium to millennium with unaltering 1 “ In Memoriam.”