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standing should arise. I had intended to con- 

 clude with a chapter on " Law in Christian 

 Theology." It was natural to reserve for that 



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chapter all direct reference to some of the 

 most fundamental facts of Human nature. 

 Yet without such reference the Reign of Law, 

 especially in the " Realm of Mind," cannot 

 even be approached in some of its very 

 highest and most important aspects. For the 

 present, however, I have shrunk from entering 

 upon questions so profound, of such critical im- 

 port, and so inseparably connected with religious 

 controversy. In the absence of any attempt 

 to deal with this great branch of the inquiry, as 

 well as in many other ways, I am painfully 

 conscious of the narrow range of this work. I 

 can only offer it as a very small contribution 

 to the discussion of a boundless subject. 



Inveraray, October 1S66. 



