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 given variation as an inexhaustible factor, and natural selection should suffice for the preservation and increase of the select few as a consequence of the destruction of the intermediate many. . . . For in each variation lies hidden the mystery of a beginning." Natural law is but the ultimate and external expression of spiritual law. By spiritual law is to be understood the law of the spiritual world, of the soul, and of the mind; the law of true religion; the law that made and governs all things superior to matter. Natural law is a material picture of spiritual law.

The Creator never acts abstractly or arbitrarily. He always secures His purposes in nature through her laws. It may be truly said that natural law is as the body of which spiritual law is the soul. The arm moves from a spiritual power in the will; the countenance