It is applied generally not to the action of man's will, but of God's.

But the sense in both cases is essentially the same.

God's will is conceived of as disturbing the automatic movements of matter without the skull, in just the same way as man's will is conceived of as disturbing those of the brain within it.
Nor, though the alleged manifestations of the former do more violence to the scientific imagination than do those of the latter, are they in the eye of reason one whit more impossible.

The erection of a pyramid at the will of an Egyptian king would as much disturb the course of nature as the removal of a mountain by the faith of a Galilean fisherman; whilst the flooding of the Sahara at the will of a speculating company would interfere with the weather of Europe far more than the most believing of men ever thought that any answer to prayer would.
It will thus be seen that morality and religion are, so far as science goes, on one and the same footing--of one and the same substance, and that as assailed by science they either fall together or stand together.

It will be seen too that the power of science against them resides not in itself, but in a certain intellectual fulcrum that we ourselves supply it with.