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Credit: Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![me that such theology must take its place as a part of science.” That the assertion has been already made good is claimed by many who deserve to be heard on questions of scientific evidence. But if more is wanted by some minds, more not perhaps of a higher kind but of a different kind, at least the attempt can be made to gratify them. Mr. Frederic Harrison,1 in name of the Positive method of thought, “ turns aside from ideal standards which avow themselves to be lawless [the italics are Mr. Harrison’s], which pro- fess to transcend the field of law. We say, life and conduct shall stand for us wholly on a basis of law, and must rest entirely in that region of science (not physical, but moral and social science) where we are free to use our intelligence, in the methods known to us as intelligible logic, methods which the intellect can analyse. When you confront us with hypotheses, however sublime and however affecting, if they can- not be stated in terms of the rest of our knowledge, if they are disparate to that world of sequence and sensation which to us is the ultimate base of all our real knowledge, then we shake our heads and turn aside.” This is a most reasonable demand, and we humbly accept the challenge. We think religious truth, or at all events certain of the largest facts of 1 “A Modern Symposium.”—Nineteenth Century, vol. i. p. 625.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28100712_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
