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therefore, law does not exist in nature. Practically it is an error to say that gravitation exists in the earth, or that there is any law existing objectively anywhere in nature. Law is the method, the manner in which our mind grasps a series of phenomena ; it is all in the mind. Certain phenomena happening one after another of together, and followed by the conviction of the regularity of their recurrence, thus' enabling our minds to grasp the method of the whole series, constitute what we call law.
The next question for consideration is what we mean by law being universal. Our universe iş that portion of existence which is characterised by what the Sanskrit psychologists call desa-kala, nimika, or what is known to European psychology as space; time, and causation. This universe is only one part of infinite existence; one part which is thrown into a peculiar mould, or is composed of space, time, and, causation. That part of the sum-total of existence which fills this mould is what forms.our universe. It necessarily. follows
