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Title: Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Author: Henry Drummond

Release Date: November 5, 2007 [EBook #23334]

Language: English

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NATURAL LAW

IN THE

SPIRITUAL WORLD.

BY

HENRY DRUMMOND. F.R.S.E.: F.G.S.

NEW YORK:
HURST & CO., PUBLISHERS,
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Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Greek
text has been transliterated and is shown between {braces}. The oe
ligature has been transcribed as [oe].

CONTENTS.

PAGE
PREFACE, 5
INTRODUCTION, 21
BIOGENESIS, 59
DEGENERATION, 83
GROWTH, 99
DEATH, 111
MORTIFICATION, 133
ETERNAL LIFE, 149
ENVIRONMENT, 181
CONFORMITY TO TYPE, 203
SEMI-PARASITISM, 223
PARASITISM, 237
CLASSIFICATION, 255

PREFACE.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said
derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion. Science is
tired of reconciliations between two things which never should have been
contrasted; Religion is offended by the patronage of an ally which it
professes not to need; and the critics have rightly discovered that, in
most cases where Science is either pitted against Religion or fused with
it, there is some fatal misconception to begin with as to the scope and
province of either. But although no initial protest, probably, will save
this work from t