[25] "Pseudo-Scientific Realism," Collected Essays, i, 68, 74-78.
[26] Newman, Grammar of Assent, p. 72. A "Law of Nature," as has already been said, is simply a statement of what de facto has always been found to occur under certain conditions, and may consequently be expected again. It is obvious however that such expectation is implicitly based on the existence of some cause capable of ensuring the result.
[27] "The Teaching of Natural Philosophy," Contemporary Review, Jan., 1878.
[28] Lay Sermons, p. 83.
[29] Riddle of the Universe, p. 6.
[30] See Wasmann "Gedanken zur Entwicklungslehre," Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, vol. 63, p. 298.
[31] Contemporary Review, ut sup., p. 301.
[32] Professor Weldon, F.R.S., in the Dictionary of National Biography.
[33] Collected Essays, v. 41.
[34] Riddle of the Universe, p. 75.