Natural Law in the Spiritual World

In his opening remarks of Natural Law in the Spiritual World, Henry Drummond queries, “Is there not reason to believe that many of the laws of the spiritual world, hitherto regarded as occupying an entirely separate province, are simply the laws of the natural world?” Aware that he was opening himself up to derision and criticism from both science and religion, Drummond nonetheless posed this question to other thinkers of the late nineteenth century. He outlined the natural law in the spiritual sphere, and the law of continuity, and claims that, “the spiritual is not the projection upwards of the natural; but the natural the projection downwards of the spiritual.”