Which preposition to use with supernaturals
See Yardley's "Supernatural in Romantic Fiction," 1880, pp.
" "What frightens me," went on Hughes, evidently studying his own symptoms, "is the mystery of itthere is something supernatural about itsomething I can't understand.
But surely the idea of so strange and awful a creature (a huge mild-faced man ending in a dragon's body) lying familiarly on the edge of the gulf, as a beaver does by the water, combines the supernatural with the familiar in a very impressive manner.
In a word, this particular argument holds strictly only for man's own guesses at religious truth,for "natural" religions; but for Christianity, only so far as we deny it to be supernatural as to its content and mode of origination.
Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us.
There is another side of life grasped by means of this new world of experience, and that is, the spiritual side that lies between conduct and ideals; children have always accepted the supernatural quite readily and it is not to be wondered at, for all the world is new and therefore supernatural to them.
NATURALISM, a philosophical term used to denote the resolution of the supernatural into the natural, and its obliteration; the reference of everything to merely natural laws, and the denial of all supernatural interference with them.