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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    department of Nature, transforming knowledge everywhere into Science. The process goes on, and Nature slowly appears to us as one great unity, until the borders of the Spiritual World are reached. There the Law of Continuity ceases, and the har- mony breaks down. And men who have learned their elementary lessons truly from the alphabet of the lower Laws, going on to seek a higher know- ledge, are suddenly confronted with the Great Ex- ception. Even those who have examined most carefully the relations of the Natural and the Spiritual, seem to have committed themselves deliberately to a final separation in matters of Law. It is a surprise to find such a writer as Horace Bushnell, for instance, describing the Spiritual World as “ another system of nature incommunicably separate from ours,” and further defining it thus : “ God has, in fact, erected another and higher system, that of spiritual being and government for which nature exists ; a system not under the law of cause and effect, but ruled and marshalled under other kinds of laws.”1 Few men have shown more insight than Bushnell in illustrating Spiritual truth from the Natural World ; but he has not only failed to per-
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