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laws which have no counterpart in nature he would have 

 discovered a new line of evidence of the existence of the 

 spiritual world. This new world, with its own laws, would 

 be clearly an independent, self-sufficient world, and not 

 merely, as sceptics assert it to be, a reflection of the physical 

 world the projection of man's experience. "But," says 

 Mr. Drummond, ' ' what is required to draw Science and 

 Religion together again for they began the centuries hand 

 in hand is the disclosure of the naturalness of the super- 

 natural." "The position we have been led to take up is 

 not that the Spiritual Laws are analogous to the Natural 

 Laws, but that they are the same Laws. It is not a question 

 of analogy but of Identity. The Laws of the invisible are 

 the same Laws, projections of the natural, not the super- 

 natural. ' ' 



"God made man in his own image," says the Bible. 

 "Man made God in his own image," answers Comte. 

 Clearly, there is no third alternative. Either our religion is 

 based upon a revelation of God, or it is our own invention. 

 Nevertheless, it may be that both statements are true. God 

 made Man in His own image, and implanted in him the 

 instinct for feeling after Himself. Ever since Man became a 

 rational being he has been trying to picture God. But still 

 the truest picture is the one which carries, most meaning to 

 the individual, whether he approaches it with ceremony and 

 veiling its glory with a cloud of incense, or feels the familiar 

 Presence by his own fireside. The analogies between the 

 world of nature and the world of religion pointed out by 

 Mr. Drummond prove, if they prove anything, that much 

 that Christians regard as a revelation is the product of imagi- 

 nation. Fortunately neither unwise friends of religion nor 

 its overt enemies can prove that there is no supernatural 

 world ; but the book which we have referred to has done 

 more than much hostile criticism in the direction of proving 

 the anthropomorphy of the religion of the Bible. It demon- 

 strates the intercalation of the fruits of human experience 



