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attained by Method. Her purposes are always 

 worked out by Law. So must ours be. For our 

 bodies and our spirits are both parts of the great 

 Order of Nature ; and our Wills can attain no end, 

 and can accomplish no design, except through 

 knowledge and through use of the appropriate 

 and appointed means. Nor can those means be 

 ascertained except by careful observation, and as 

 careful reasoning. It is a hard thing to know all 

 the forces which operate even on our own indi- 

 vidual minds ; and it is a much harder problem 

 to understand the forces which arise out of the 

 complicated conditions of human society. But 

 the very idea of Natural Law as affecting mankind 

 is founded on the possibility of tracing in human 

 nature the existence and operation of forces which 

 under given conditions do actually determine the 

 course of human conduct in particular directions. 

 Amongst these forces there are a certain number 

 which are constant, or at least so constant that 

 they may be calculated upon as certainly affecting 

 the great majority of mankind. These are chiefly 

 the motives which arise out of our physical consti- 

 tution — the desires and affections which are com- 



