54 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



hands, and saying, "If you will let us alone, we 

 will do the same by you. Keep to your own 

 province; do not enter ours. The reign of Law 

 which you proclaim, we admit — outside these 

 walls, but not within them : — let there be peace 

 between us." But this will never do. There 

 can be no such treaty dividing the domain of 

 Truth. Every one Truth is connected with every 

 other Truth in this great Universe of God. The 

 connexion may be one of infinite subtlety, and 

 apparent distance — running, as it were, under- 

 ground for a long way, but always asserting itself 

 at last, somewhere, and at some time. No bar- 

 gaining, no fencing off the ground — no form of 

 process, will avail to bar this right of way. Blessed 

 right, enforced by blessed power! Every truth, 

 which is truth indeed, is charged with its own 

 consequences, its own analogies, its own sugges- 

 tions. These will not be kept outside any artificial 

 boundary ; they will range over the whole Field 

 of Thought, nor is there any corner of it from 

 which they can be warned away. 



And therefore we must cast a sharp eye indeed 

 on every form of words which professes to repre- 



