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Henry Drummond’s 1883 Christian apologetic work Natural Law in the Spiritual World

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Christian theology, spiritual life, analogy, environment, growth, science-and-religion argument and nineteenth-century intellectual history.

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To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to live.

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“To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to live.”

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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.

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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.

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