ABSTRACT
A wider, if looser, definition of Nature is given by Dr. C. S. Lewis: “Nature seems to be the spatial and temporal as distinct from what is less fully so or not at all. Nature was faced with a difficult problem when she set out to fashion man for life in the physical universe. The first alternative being impossible, Nature had to adopt the second; and the part with which man must be acquainted had obviously to be the material patt because man has a material body. The convergent nature of the problems which arise in practical life is the chief reason for the immense success of the industrial arts and of applied science. It is Nature’s device for making the world of action appear to be the whole universe and not a fragment of it—a world that is self-sufficient, autonomous and all-inclusive.
