Robinson will perceive, then, that he can undertake nothing for the purpose of procuring the co-operation of natural forces until he has previously accumulated a stock of /provisions/.
Now, it is exactly [p212] in that proportion that human labour has been replaced by natural forces.
The very idea is absurd, and yet this is rigorously implied in the theory of the Economists, who attribute a certain portion of the value of a product to matter or natural forces.
Though God rested from his work of creation and established an order of natural forces, a special and continuous divine activity is declared to be put forth in the upholding of the universe and its powers.
Now the most tyrannical government, like the best, is a natural product maintained by an equilibrium of natural forces.
The value of existences is wholly borrowed from their ideality, without direct consideration of their fate, while the existence of ideals is wholly determined by natural forces, without direct relation to their fulfilment.
It is absurd to confound principles so distinct as heat, or gravitation, or electricity, with those which produce the most disinterested moral actions, and designate them by the common term "natural forces.
The truth is that death is a phenomenon which is caused by the joint action of a multitude of natural forces.
Natural forces, that is to say, material ones, modify one another; and by their combined action, they produce a series of events quite different from what would be the result of their separate action.
It would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to convince us that these two sets of natural forces, distinguishable by the strongest possible contrasts, (viz.
Effect of contact with free nature; enjoyment derived from nature independently of a knowledge of the action of natural forces, or of the physiognomy and configuration of the surface, or of the character of vegetation.
Answer to Objections—Religious Physics Sociological in Form, and the Substitution of Relations between Malevolent or Beneficent Conscious Beings for Relations between Natural Forces—Socio-morphism of Primitive Peoples.
Theory of a Worship of the Dead and of Spirits—Herbert Spencer—Spencer’s Objections to the Theory of the Attribution of a Soul to Natural Forces.
Theory of a worship of the dead and of spirits—Herbert Spencer—Spencer’s objections to the theory of the attribution of a soul to natural forces.
The world is regarded less as a battlefield of principles than as a theatre for the display of natural forces.
It is sometimes hard to distinguish it from the worship of natural forces.
These examples show the difficulty, or rather indicate the error, of attempting to interpret all the details in any myth as so many statements about natural phenomena and natural forces.
In the class of natural forces, also, the possession of a secret of production or of inimitable skill, or a legal right to its exclusive use, may produce something similar to rent.
The former mode of calculation gives us a means of judging of the comfort of the people, their control of natural forces, etc.
It was a curious and a facetious crowd, but not awestricken, as it had been at the first manifestations of this freakish upset of natural forces.
I believe last night's phenomena were controlled, not fortuitous or the result of natural forces.
One red-faced individual with white side-whiskers, looking exactly like the comic-paper caricatures of the trusts, had evidently refused to accept any arbitrary dictates of natural forces.
Here Le Roy lays down Bodin's principle which was to be asserted more urgently in the following century--the permanence of natural forces.
And Fontenelle offers what he regards as a formal Cartesian proof of the permanence of natural forces.
From his point of view, an "old age" of humanity, which if it meant anything meant decay as well as the wisdom of experience, was contrary to the principle of the permanence of natural forces.
It is briefly this, that no combination of natural forces, which are uniform and always act the same under the same circumstances, can ever produce a free force, able to act or not as it likes.
And natural forces are those which, as far as we know, always act according to some fixed law.
Say calls even production an exchange in which the productive services of natural forces, of labor and of capital are parted with in order to obtain products.
Along with that there may also be taken as a variant of the argument from existence, the alleged impossibility of a natural "order" that should result from the inherent properties of natural forces.
For the present natural order is not something that is, so to speak, separable from our conception of natural forces, it is something that has grown out of and is the expression of the idea of nature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural forces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
