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 smiles from a spiritual power. Man loves, thinks, and performs every act from a spiritual power in the soul. Likewise nature, being the body of which the spiritual world is the soul, performs all her operations in minutest particulars and most general aspect from the forces of the spiritual world, which world the Creator fills with life and power from Himself.

Then Mr. Darwin was, in one sense, right in speaking of natural selection; for, as we have said, when the Creator would effect a purpose in nature, He does it through natural law. Indeed, natural law is the way the Creator acts on the natural plane.

There is yet a more comprehensive view of this fact suggested in the conception that the Creator is fully in spiritual law, just as cause is within effect; hence His purposes must be worked out there. And as natural law is the outward expression of spiritual