As to unbroken sequences in the physical order, they do not trouble me, because we have to do not with the natural but the moral order, and over this science, or as I call it natural science, does not wave her sceptre.
Morley distinguishes between the moral and natural orders, asserting that science does not govern moral considerations.
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