Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to live.”
- Date
- 1883
- Local voice
- Authorial / signed preface voice · Henry Drummond
Meaning of “To live is to correspond, and to correspond…”
Drummond expresses his view that life depends on active relation with an environment, then uses that idea as an analogy within his Christian account of spiritual life.
Where does it come from?
Natural Law in the Spiritual World, represented by Project Gutenberg #23334. The sentence belongs to Drummond’s nineteenth-century attempt to analogize scientific language and Christian theology. It is retained as historical religious-philosophical argument, not a current biological law.
Why the local voice matters
Natural Law in the Spiritual World; Drummond uses biological terminology analogically within Christian theology. The sentence is not presented as a modern scientific law.