THE SUPERNATURAL. 



be referred to the contrivance or ingenuity of Man, 

 it is thereby at once removed from the sphere of 

 the Supernatural, as ordinarily understood. 



It must be remembered, however, that we are 

 now only seeking a clear definition of terms ; and 

 that provided this other meaning be clearly agreed 

 upon, the Mind and Will of Man may be considered 

 as separate from " nature," and belonging to the 

 Supernatural. This view is taken in an able 

 treatise on " Nature and the Supernatural," by 

 Dr Bushnell, an American clergyman * Dr Bush- 

 nell says : — " That is supernatural, whatever it be, 

 that is either not in the chain of natural cause and 

 effect, or which acts on the chain of cause and 

 effect in nature, from without the chain." Again: 

 — " If the processes, combinations, and results of 

 our system of nature are interrupted or varied 

 by the action, whether of God, or angels, or men, 

 so as to bring to pass what would not come to 

 pass in it by its own internal action, under the 

 laws of mere cause and effect, such variations are 

 in like manner supernatural." There is no other 



* Nature and the Supernatural, as together constituting the one 

 System of God. By Horace Bushnell, D.D. Edinburgh, i860. 



