"All existence is a dominion of reason." "The laws of nature are laws of reason, and altogether form an endless unity of reason; ...

one and the same throughout the universe." [263] In the same way Mr.Lewes, in criticising the Duke of Argyll's "Reign of Law" (_Fortnightly Review_, July 1867, p.

100), asks whether we should consider that man wise who spilt a gallon of wine in order to fill a wineglass?
But, because we should not do so, it by no means follows that we can argue from such an action to the action of God in the visible universe.
For the man's object, in the case supposed, is simply to fill the wine-glass, and the wine spilt is so much loss.

With God it may be entirely different in both respects.

All these objections are fully met by the principle thus laid down by St.Thomas Aquinas: "Quod si aliqua causa particularis deficiat a suo effectu, hoc est propter aliquam causam particularem impediantem quae continetur sub ordine causae universalis.