Excerpt from Law in Nature, Four Papers, Read Before the Adelaide Philosophical Society
The following Papers were read before the Adelaide Philosophical Society, and are printed at their request. In preparing them for the press I have preserved as much as possible their original form, because I am desirous that they should appear what they are - Papers read before a limited audience, members of a Society formed for the encouragement and prosecution of scientific investigation, and familiar to some extent with the topics discussed and the principles attempted to be established. Regarded in any other light, these Papers would scarcely he suited for publication; if for no other reason, because of their incompleteness. They do not pretend to exhaust the subjects upon which they treat, even under the aspects in which they are presented, but only to suggest and develop certain lines of thought, and the conclusions to which these seem to lead, so far as they appeared to fall within the objects of the Society.
The second and third Papers, "Law in Creation" and "Law in History," are printed almost as they were read; though in the latter I should have liked to develop more fully the last section - that which relates to the influence of former civilizations upon modem thought. I found, however, that this could not he done at all adequately without an amount of additional matter which I did not feel justified in inserting. I have, therefore, left it in its original state. In the first Paper I have added one or two paragraphs in order to elucidate more fully the sense in which the term "law" is used in scientific discussions, and the ambiguities which arise from the other senses in which the word is habitually employed.
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