Mill was able to say that the conception of history as subject to general laws had "passed into the domain of newspaper and ordinary political discussion.
He laid the foundations of sociology, convincing many minds that the history of civilisation is subject to general laws, or, in other words, that a science of society is possible.
If the Deity acts upon the world, as Malebranche maintained, only by means of general laws, His freedom is abolished, His omnipotence is endangered, He is subject to a sort of fatality.
He laid down that political, like physical, phenomena are subject to general laws.
Canons made by virtue of the pastoral office and God's general laws (in nature or Scripture) for regulating it, are a sort of laws to the subjects or flocks of those pastors.
The existence of general laws of Nature explains this harmony, even if we assume that all beings have arisen separately and independent of one another.
Varieties arise irrespectively of the notion of purpose, or of utility, according to general laws of Nature, and may be either useful, or hurtful, or indifferent.
Surely the stripes of dun horses, and the teeth of the foetal Balæna, are not explained by the "existence of General laws of Nature.
And the congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
And the congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof.
In cities there are also courts of justice other than those which are established by the constitution or general laws of the state.
Is it quite certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies, or that of the human frame, is subject to general laws?
In order to prove that society is subject to general laws, no elaborate dissertation is necessary.
For, if there be general laws which act independently of written laws, and of which the latter can only regulate the action, we must study these /general laws/.
And it enabled Condorcet himself to maintain that the history of civilisation, a progress still far from being complete, was a development conditioned by general laws.
The actions of prominent individuals, which are generally considered to have altered or determined the course of things, are obviously not amenable to statistical computation or explicable by general laws.
Thus it indirectly brings about what the apprehension of large principles, of general laws, or of moral obligations, never could effect.
The establishment by divine power of general laws, according to which, rather than by insulated interpositions in each particular case, events are brought about in the material world; and 2.
The constitution of 1851 prohibited the legislature from passing any special act conferring corporate powers and provided for the organization of cities by general laws.
The city may adopt a charter which is in harmony with the constitution and the laws of the state, but the charter thus adopted may be freely modified by general laws relating to cities.
It follows that no algebraic theorem can ever contradict any result which could be arrived at by arithmetic; for the reasoning in both cases merely applies the same general laws to different classes of things.
Strong excitements seem necessary to create exertion, and to direct this exertion, and form the reasoning faculty, it seems absolutely necessary, that the Supreme Being should act always according to general laws.
Now it is the business of science to explain situations in terms of general laws and so the intellectual method of abstract-ion is the right one for scientists to employ.
The third stage in explaining facts in terms of general laws is called induction and consists in observing and formulating the relations of "things.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general laws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
