124 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



have arrived in forming the idea of Laws or 

 Forces. That idea is itself made up out of 

 elements derived from our own consciousness of 

 Personality. This fact is seen by men who do not 

 see the interpretation of it. They denounce as a 

 superstition the idea of any Personal Will separable 

 from the Forces which work in Nature. They say 

 that this idea is a mere projection of our own Per- 

 sonality into the world beyond — the shadow of 

 our own Form cast upon the ground on which we 

 look. And indeed this, in a sense, is true. It is 

 perfectly true that the Mind does recognise in 

 Nature a reflection of itself. But if this be a de- 

 ception, it is a deception which is not avoided by 

 transferring the idea of Personality to the abstract 

 Idea of Force, or by investing combinations of 

 Force with the attributes of Mind. 



We need not be jealous, then, when new domains 

 are claimed as under the Reign of Law — an agency 

 through which we see working everywhere some 

 Purpose of the Everlasting Will. There are many 

 things in Nature of which we do not see the reason ; 

 and many other things of which we cannot find out 

 the cause ; but there are none from which we ex- 



