THE REIGN OF LAW. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE SUPERNATURAL. 



I~*HE Supernatural — what is it ? What do we 

 mean by it ? How do we define it ? M. 

 Guizot* tells us that belief in it is the special 

 difficulty of our time — that denial of it is the 

 form taken by all modern assaults on Christian 

 faith ; and again, that acceptance of it lies at the 

 root, not only of Christianity, but of all positive 

 religion whatever. These questions, then, concern- 

 ing the Supernatural are questions of first import- 

 ance. Yet we find them seldom distinctly put, and 

 still more seldom distinctly answered. This is a 



* L'Eglise et la Society Chretienne en 1861, ch. iv. p. 19. 



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