We
have already stated that science or the attribute of scientific
penetration is supernatural and that all other blessings of God are
within the boundary of nature. What is the proof of this? All created
things except man are captives of nature. The stars and suns swinging
through infinite space, all earthly forms of life and existence—whether
mineral, vegetable or animal—come under the dominion and control of
natural law. Man through scientific knowledge and power rules nature and
utilizes her laws to do his bidding. According to natural limitations
he is a creature of earth, restricted to life upon its surface, but
through scientific utilization of material laws he soars in the sky,
sails upon the ocean and dives beneath it. The products of his invention
and discovery, so familiar to us in daily life, were once mysteries of
nature. For instance, man has brought electricity out of the plane of
the invisible into the plane of the visible, harnessed and imprisoned
that mysterious natural agent and made it the servant of his needs and
wishes. Similar instances are many, but we will not prolong this. Man,
as it were, takes the sword out of nature’s hand and with it for his
scepter of authority dominates nature itself.