So far as this argument is concerned, the issue is not Design versus Natural Selection, but it is Design versus Natural Law.
So now we reasonably abide by the saying, as the jurisconsults have wisely and rightly said: that man and woman should be with each other is a natural law.
Now, if it is a natural law, then it is God's ordinance, therefore implanted in nature, and therefore a divine law also.
The order of nature, or natural law, was altogether hallowed as "God's ordinance.
The pus, under the influence of a natural law, seeks its escape by the path of least resistance; sometimes this is into the intestine, and occasionally into the bladder.
It is true that Ghazali maintains that the natural law according to which effects proceed inevitably from their causes is only custom, and that there is no necessary connexion between them.
Wallace succeeded in displacing the naif conception of special creation by belief in the origin of species out of other species through a process of natural law.
Since therefore other animals are not subject to a natural law, neither is man subject to a natural law.
But man's reason, which the law regards, does not always think about the natural law.
We call natural law, the principles which govern man considered as a moral being, that is, as an intelligent and free being, intended to live in the society of other beings, intelligent and free like himself.
As there is a natural law, so, too, there are certain principles of Political Economy which emanate from philosophy, and may be reduced to one supreme principle; that of liberty and responsibility.
Here is an entire negation of natural law in the necessity of physical labor as a means to procure the comforts of life.
He evidently had no idea of a ruling principle in nature or of the existence of natural law, as controlling any event he witnessed.
Never spoke of a natural law, or assigned a natural cause for anything.
That the increase in a geometric ratio of the number of living individuals has no other natural check than that of a deficiency of food is a natural law to which not merely man but every living being is inexorably subject.
Hence he at last came to the conclusion that this universal hungering was a consequence of a natural law.
The fact that want and misery have, notwithstanding, hitherto always operated as checks upon the growth of the population is not the result of a natural law but of exploitation.
Defn: One who, or that which, unifies; as, a natural law is a unifier of phenomena.
A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
Natural law, that instinctive sense of justice and of right and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated human law.
In 1753 the Academy of Dijon again offered a prize for an essay on a subject evidently connected with the former one: "What is the Origin of Inequality among Men, and whether it is authorized by Natural Law.
Jurists, too, have recognized a natural law of equity underlying human law.
Can we touch at, and rest for a moment on, the possibility of plants and animals having likewise been produced in the way of Natural Law, thus assigning but one class of causes for everything revealed to our sensual observation?
The remarks which were offered, in the previous section, on Cosmical Development, are equally applicable, mutatis mutandis, to this other form of the doctrine of Creation by Natural Law.
We know, moreover, how this ideology of natural law arose.
But it is being more and more admitted by theologians who are regarded as quite orthodox and rather conservative, that the idea of a miracle need not necessarily imply such a suspension of natural law.
These results of inductive research swayed me in rejecting direct or miraculous creation, and in recognising a "natural law or secondary cause" as operative in the production of species "in orderly succession and progression.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural law" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
