still less from any unreasoning fear of a capricious Deity, but by the working of an intelligible Law. If any of my readers happens to be an electrician, he will find an exact parallel in what is known as Ohm's Law. Such readers will be familiar with the formula C = E/R, but for the benefit of those to whom this formula may be unintelligible, I will give a few words of explanation.

C means the current of electricity which is to be delivered for any work that is to be done; E stands for the Electromotive Force which generates the current; and R is the Resistance offered to the current by the conductor, such as the wires through which it flows. It there were no resistance, the full amount of the current generated would be delivered. But without any conductor, no current could be delivered, and therefore there must be some resistance, and so the full power of the Electromotive Force can never be delivered by the Current. The amount that will be delivered is the original power of the Electromotive force divided by the Resistance. The Resistance therefore acts as a restricting force, limiting the extent to which the power of the original Electro-motive force shall be delivered at the point where the