IO THE REIGN OF LAW. 



objection to this definition of the Supernatural, 

 than that it rests upon a limitation of the terms 

 " Nature " and " natural," which is very much at 

 variance with the sense in which they are com- 

 monly understood. There is, indeed, a distinction 

 which finds its expression in common language be- 

 tween the works of Man and the works of Nature. 

 A honeycomb, for example, would be called a 

 work of Nature, but not a steam-engine. This 

 distinction is founded on a true perception of the 

 fact that the Mind and Will of Man belong to an 

 order of existence very different from physical 

 laws, and very different also from the fixed and 

 narrow instincts of the lower animals. It is a dis- 

 tinction bearing witness to the universal conscious- 

 ness that the Mind of Man has within it something 

 of a truly creative energy and force — that we are 

 in a sense " fellow- workers with God/' and have 

 been in a measure " made partakers of the Di- 

 vine nature." But in that larger and wider sense 

 in which we are here speaking of the Natural, it 

 contains within it the whole phenomena of Man's 

 intellectual and spiritual nature, as part, and the 

 most familiar of all parts, of the visible system of 



