170 MODERN IDEAS OF EVOLUTION 



spirit on spirit, even of the spirit of man on the spirit of 

 man, much more the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, 

 may be according to law, and yet from the natural point of 

 view be supernatural. It is true that in the complex phe 

 nomena, material and spiritual inextricably woven together, 

 which go to make up human life Science must ever strive 

 to reduce as much as possible to material laws, for this is 

 her domain, and she is bound to extend it ; but, if our 

 view of man be true, there will always remain a large 

 residuum of phenomena a whole world of phenomena 

 which will never yield, because clearly beyond her domain. 

 Standing on the lower material plane, these phenomena are 

 wholly supermaterial, and therefore incomprehensible from 

 the material point of view. We must rise and stand on the 

 higher plane before these also are reduced to law, but a 

 higher law than that operating on the lower plane. If, 

 therefore, Science insists on banishing the supernatural 

 from the realm of nature, theology may reasonably insist 

 on its necessity, in this sense, in the realm of morals and 

 religion. 



