ASTRONOMY AND THEOLOGY.
[To THE EDFIOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—For years I have been privately trying to call attention to the fact which for the first time I see noted in a letter addressed to you last week. All ideas of religion which imply that it has no reference to what is beyond this earth, and was originally evolved upon it, obviously belong to the pre- Copernican order of thought, and are necessarily so far dis- credited and untenable.
And if we thought of the " supernatural" as really the super-planetary, or—if such a word is allowable—the " super- satellitic," we should then discover which tendency of thought was the truest to ascertained natural order. And we might possibly realise (is it not time we should P) that we are, after all, right in speaking, not of the Divine Super-nature, but of the Divine Nature.—I am, Sir, &c., V. W,
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