CHAPTER V.
PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESSION.
If we wish to arrive at an accurate knowledge of
any subject, we must endeavor to ascertain what is
fundamental to that subject. If we need to investigate
accurately any science, we need to inform ourselves as
early as possible of the fundamental principles pertaining
to that science. There is no better way to study
the history of creation than by studying it as revealed
in the phenomena of Nature. When I can investigate
Nature in her operations, and ascertain the laws by
which she performs her work, I then can arrive—at
least approximately—at the philosophy of Nature, in
attaining which I attain the philosophy of divine manifestation.
There can be no interpolation there. The
Divine Artificer works alone in the fields of Nature,
and where I can discover the manifestation of wisdom
and power, there I come directly into communication
with the Divine Being in that plane of action and
manifestation; and when I learn what the law of
action and manifestation is in that department, I learn
so much of the method of the divine work, or of the
divine order. I propose, then, briefly to call your
attention to the teachings of God upon this subject of
progression, as manifested in the fields of Nature; and
