THE SUPERNATURAL. 



of Nature. One of our most distinguished living 

 teachers of physical science * began, not long ago, 

 a course of lectures on the phenomena of Heat 

 by a rapid statement of the modern doctrine of 

 the Correlation of Forces — how the one was con- 

 vertible into the other — how one arose out of the 

 other — how none could be evolved except from 

 some other as a pre-existing source. " Thus," 

 said the lecturer, " we see there is no such thing 

 as spontaneousness in Nature." What ! — not in 

 the lecturer himself? Was there no "spontane- 

 ousness " in his choice of words — in his selection 

 of materials — in his orderly arrangement of ex- 

 periments with a view to the exhibition of particu- 

 lar results? It is not probable that the lecturer 

 was intending to deny this ; it simply was that 

 he did not think of it as within his field of view. 

 His own Mind and Will were then dealing with 

 the " laws of Nature," but it did not occur to him 

 as forming part of those laws, or, in the same 

 sense, as subject to them. 



Does Man, then, not belong to Nature ? Is he 

 above it — or merely separate from it, or a viola- 



* Professor Tyndall. 



