20 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



of means which are natural and comprehen- 

 sible. An extraordinary resisting power has 

 been given to the Jewish People against those 

 dissolving and disintegrating forces which have 

 caused the disappearance of every other race 

 placed under similar conditions. They have been 

 torn from home and country, and removed, not 

 in a body, but in scattered fragments, over the 

 world. Yet they are as distinct from every 

 other people now as they were in the days of 

 Solomon. Nevertheless this resisting power, 

 wonderful though it be, is the result of spe- 

 cial laws, overruling those in ordinary opera- 

 tion. It has been effected by the use of 

 means. Those means have been superhuman 

 — they have been beyond human contrivance 

 and arrangement. But they belong to the region 

 of the Natural. They belong to it not the less, 

 but all the more, because in their concatenation 

 and arrangement they seem to indicate the pur- 

 pose of a living Will seeking and effecting the 

 fulfilment of its designs. This is the manner 

 after which our own living Wills in their little 

 sphere effect their little objects. Is it difficult 



