The Reign of Law

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Excerpt from The Reign of Law: And Other Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin "Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." - Galatians vi. 7, 8. The progress of scientific discovery has now filled the minds of all thinking men with a sense of the universal prevalence of law. If we ascribe events now to chance, the idea we attach to the word is something very different from the signification which it bore in former days. In early times, when the links connecting events were unnoticed, and their sequences believed to be arbitrary, what struck men most was, how short a way human prudence could go in directing the course of affairs. Fortune was then felt to be a divinity - blind, indeed, and capricious, and inconstant, but all-powerful. With malicious joy, she made it her sport to baffle the calculations of the prudent, and chequer with reverses the triumphs of the successful. At her interference, the most deeply-laid schemes of the wise would end in confusion, while she would lavish on some undeserving object riches and honours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.