Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Natural and Supernatural. [ARTICLE]

Natural and Supernatural.

The strict meaning of the word "supernatural’’ is "over" or “above” the hatural; but where the natural ends and the supernatural begin® is a matter that i.< still in the courts The wisest minds of the race have been debating the question for ten thousand years or more, and the subject is still far from being settled. The .best definition of nature known to us is to be found in John Stuart Mills’ “Three Essays on Religion,” and is as follows: "Nature is a collective name for all facts, actual and possible;- or a name for the Mode, partly known to us and partly unknown. in which alj things take places.” It will be observed from this definition that in Mills’ opinion nature is all, the so-called supernatural being but the "unknown” side of the natural.