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most apt to find the loose thinking and 

 superstition which we are compelled to crit 

 icise. But here again caution is most com 

 mendable. A law of man is a rule imposed 

 from without. A law of nature is simply 

 our formulation of the order of events as we 

 find them in nature. The evidence at our 

 disposal may be little, or it may be great; 

 the law may be firmly established by an 

 invariable sequence of occurrences through 

 the course of ages, or it may depend upon 

 a few observations within a limited field, and 

 may be subject to modifications upon fuller 

 and more extensive observation. Andrew 

 Lang and Professor Huxley seem to have 

 come into collision in a case of this kind, 

 and we cannot but feel that in this case the 

 literary man lias, in a degree, the better of 

 the scientific man, in that his attitude of 

 mind under the circumstances is more in 

 accordance with the temper of a philosophic 

 investigator, however ignorant he may be as 

 compared with his opponent relative to the 

 matter in hand. 



There are more things in heaven and earth, 



Horatio, 

 Thau are dreamt of in your philosophy. 



Professor Huxley seems to have forgotten 



