Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond.

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

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    in physiological—is a neglect of the radical assump- tion of all science, because it is an attempt to deduce representations—or rather misrepresentations—of one kind of phenomenon from a conception of another kind which does not contain it, and must have it implicitly and illicitly smuggled in before it can be extracted out of it. Hence, instead of increasing our means of representing the universe to ourselves without the detailed examination of particulars, such a procedure leads to misconstructions of fact on the basis of an imported theory, and generally ends in forcibly perverting the least-known science to the type of the better known.”1 What is wanted is simply a unity of conception, but not such a unity of conception as should be founded on an absolute identity of phenomena. This latter might indeed be a unity, but it would be a very tame one The perfection of unity is attained where there is infinite variety of phe- nomena, infinite complexity of relation, but great simplicity of Law. Science will be complete when all known phenomena can be arranged in one vast circle in which a few well known Laws shall form the radii—• these radii at once separating and uniting, separating into particular groups, yet uniting all to a common centre. To show that the radii for some of the most 1 “ Essays,” vol. i. p. 40.
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