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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    cations of spectrum analysis. But even in the case of the simpler Laws the demonstration is complete. There is no reason apart from Continuity to expect that gravitation for instance should prevail outside our world. But wherever matter has been detected throughout the entire universe, whether in the form of star or planet, comet or meteorite, it is found to obey that Law. “ If there were no other indication of unity than this, it would be almost enough. For the unity which is implied in the mechanism of the heavens is indeed a unity which is all-embracing and complete. The structure of our own bodies, with all that depends upon it, is a structure governed by, and therefore adapted to, the same force of gravita- tion which has determined the form and the move- ments of myriads of worlds. Every part of the human organism is fitted to conditions which would all be destroyed in a moment if the forces of gravita- tion were to change or fail.”1 But it is unnecessary to multiply illustrations. Having defined the principle we may proceed at once to apply it. And the argument may be summed up in a sentence. As the Natural Laws are continuous through the universe of matter and of ' The Duke of Argyll: Contemporary Review, Sept., 1880, P 358.
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