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CHAPTER I. 



NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. 



[This chapter and the two following are little more than a 

 reproduction of the review of Drummond's Natural Law in 

 the Spiritual World by the present writer in the British 

 Quarterly Review for July 1884.] 



THE great and widely -felt interest excited by 

 Professor Drummond's work on Natural Law in 

 the Spiritual Wordd is to be noted with much satis- 

 faction; for it is necessary to the spiritual life of 

 the community, though not always to that of the 

 individual, that some degree of intellectual interest 

 in religion be maintained : the union of intellectual 

 with spiritual life is needful for the vigour as well 

 as the purity of both. We are bidden to love the 

 Lord with all the mind as well as with all the heart. 

 Yet the merits of this work its originality, 

 suggestiveness, clearness of thought, and eloquence 

 of expression do not prevent me from thinking 

 that, if tried by the standard of its own very high 

 claims, it must be regarded as a failure. Its claim 



