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INTRODUCTION.

prices which his neighbours would be willing to pay
Now, if we apprehend aright, this would be what Prof,
Cairnes means by an interference with the natural law
of wages and of profits. But the only connection it has
with natural laws is that the God of the natural world
is also God of the intellectual world. .that the God of
deal science is God also of natural science. . that He who.
12s ordained laws to govern and regulate the phenomena
of (the material world) nature, has also ordained laws to
govern and control the phenomena of (the spiritual world)
mtellect. The employer, the farmer, and the labourer,
all feel aggrieved. Why ? Because the laws of nature
have been interfered with? Not at all, but, because
hey feel and know that injustice has been done to
them. The great fundamental compound fact of Ideal
Science that..God is just; and..that Man has been
made in the image of God; and therefore created on the
basis of justice, has been disregarded. The ideal fact
that arbitrary unnecessary interference with the reasonable
 liberty of his fellowman, by man, is unsanctioned
and forbidden by the intellectual law of God, and is
consequently unlawful, has been disregarded. - The
anlawful action of the officer, resulting from the unlaw-‘ul
 action of his government, is, because unlawful, out of
aarmony with the whole of creation; with the intelleccual
 world primarily and directly, but hence, indirectly
with the natural world also. In this very indirect
sense, and in this indirect sense only, the unwise and
anlawful interference with the just rights and liberties
of the several individuals would have a connection with