CHAPTER V. 



CREATION BY LAW. 



TI/"E see, then, how the existence of Organs 

 separated from Function and of structures 

 without immediate use, find their natural place 

 among all the other phenomena of the world. 

 They do not show that " Law " is ever superior to 

 Will, or can ever assert, even for a moment, an 

 independence of its own. On the contrary, they 

 show as nothing else can show, the patient move- 

 ments, and the incalculable years, through which 

 material laws have been made to follow the steps 

 of Purpose. 



But then let us remember this : — these dis- 

 coveries in Physiology, though they are helpless 

 to prove that Law has ever been present as a 

 Master, are eminently suggestive of the idea that 

 Law has never been absent as a Servant : — that 

 as in governing the world, so in forming it, ma- 



