Excerpt from Two Worlds Are Ours To the solid ground Of nature trusts the mind which builds for aye. So wrote Wordsworth, and his words have their highest application in theology. While, like Jacob's ladder, its top is poised upon the throne of God, its base rests upon the familiar earth. It ascends from the earth and descends to the earth from its highest flights. The Divine revelations of the Bible were not communicated directly from heaven, but were acted out historically upon the earth. They were not painted on empty air, but were run into the mould of existing circumstances, and took their shape and colour from the things of nature and of man. The whole Bible is a Jacob's ladder, ascending by successive steps of the unfolding of the Divine scheme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.