POSSIBLY nothing appeals more readily to the faculty of human reason than the fact that Principle is imperative and absolute, and therefore necessarily demonstrable. Every scientific statement admits of proof, according to a fixed and governing law, which law cannot possibly entertain the least "variableness, neither shadow of turning." Yet while humanity is insistent upon this as being a fundamental necessity in regard to the so-called physical sciences, it continues seemingly in the belief that the Science of being is incomprehensible, more or less accidental, subject to the mutations of chance, with no unvarying law by which it is governed or Principle by which it can be demonstrated.
The human mind names discord as the natural condition and ultimate of being, even while admitting that discord cannot possibly arise or result from the operation of perfect law or Principle. It is obvious that no matter how real or true a condition may seem to be, it cannot in the least be so unless founded on fact, therefore unchangeable and admitting of proof. On the same basis, if the attendant discords of material existence were true or founded on fact, it would be utterly impossible to overcome them and worse than useless to try.
It is easy to picture the vague helplessness of a student struggling to work out a problem in numbers, for instance, if he believes that an erroneous condition which has arisen is the direct result of the operation of the basic rule of numbers. Rather does he know that in proportion to his ability to gain an exact knowledge of the rule and its operation, he will be able to prove the exactness of the rule and thus escape the discordant experiences which attend ignorance of or disobedience to the law of mathematics. If this be true of the law governing numbers, how necessarily must it be true of the Science upon which eternity is based—the law of God, or the Science of being?
