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other hand it does not appear that supernatural control is 

 deniable. The discoverable facts simply make conduct ac- 

 countable in a certain way without it, and seem to indicate 

 that this accountability is of the same nature as the super- 

 natural is conceived to have; yet the secrets of the source 

 of energy and of the origin of life, lie beyond our knowl- 

 edge with infinite possibilities still unrevealed by nature. 



There appears in this unknown point of departure all the 

 potentiality of eternal supernatural control, as unqualified 

 as if the control reappeared at every subsequent act. And 

 the idea of a regulating function, primarily imparted as the 

 essence of the life, and self-sustaining in all evolution with 

 it, is in harmony with a conception of an Almighty God, 

 which is higher than the conception resting on the belief, 

 that a divine wisdom continually controls action by necessary 

 repeated personal intervention, which is characteristic of an 

 intelligence of lesser prescience. 



But even though the intervention of supernatural power is 

 a possible unknown factor, and though that unknown factof 

 remains unpresentable except in supernatural terms, yet the 

 understandable and purely natural system, which appears 

 as resting upon it, can, and now does, provide for a com- 

 pensation of conduct. To facilitate the study of these infer- 

 ences, they are now collected into a series and declared, in 

 such order as to show the relationship by which they make 

 a system. This order is somewhat different from that in 

 which they discover themselves to experience, and different 

 again from that in which they offer aid to right conduct. 

 In systematized order these principles may be recited as 

 follows : 



