Natural law in the spiritual world / by Henry Drummond.

  • Henry Drummond
Date:
1888
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    without Continuity. And hence we come in sight of the necessity of some principle or Law according to which Laws shall be, and be “ continuous ” throughout the system. Man as a rational and moral being demands a pledge that if he depends on Nature for any given result on the ground that Nature has previously led him to expect such a result, his intellect shall not be insulted, nor his confidence in her abused. If he is to trust Nature, in short, it must be guaranteed to him that in doing so he will “never be put to confusion.” The authors of the Unseen Universe conclude their examination of this principle by saying that “ assuming the existence of a supreme Governor of the universe, the Principle of Continuity may be said to be the definite expres- sion in words of our trust that He will not put us to permanent intellectual confusion, and we can easily conceive similar expressions of trust with reference to the other faculties of man.”1 Or, as it has been well put elsewhere, Continuity is the expression of “the Divine Veracity in Nature.”2 The most striking examples of the continuousness of Law are perhaps those furnished by Astronomy, especially in connection with the more recent appli- 1 “ Unseen Universe,” 6th ed., p. 88. 5 “Old Faiths in New Light,” by Newman Smyth. Unwin’s English edition, p. 2^2.
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