It adapts surroundings and habits of life to natural laws.
Nay, he denies that the original creation of the universe and of animals and plants required any thing but the operation of natural laws; of such laws as we see and understand.
It is absurd to hope that another Newton will arise in the future who shall make comprehensible by us the production of a blade of grass according to natural lawswhich no design has ordered” (p.
The conjecture would, of course, be not less applicable to social than to natural laws.
Possibly, however, it may be replied that 'government by natural laws' is a phrase which Positivists never use except metaphorically, and by which they never mean more than certain successions of events.
This being would be the principle of good, acting in the universe according to natural laws, but hindered and retarded in his action by these laws themselves, which bring suffering and death.
So that to say that everything happens according to natural laws, and to say that everything is ordained by the decree and ordinance of God, is the same thing.
How then, it will be asked, did the vast nexus of natural lawswhich is now observable ever begin or continue to be?
The two axioms which he launched upon the world--the supremacy of reason, and the invariability of natural laws--struck directly at the foundations of orthodoxy.
The vain notion that God, having created the world at first, left it for ever after to the operation of natural laws, is conclusively demolished by the discoveries of geology.
He defines the nature which selects to be "the aggregate action and product of natural laws," and these laws are "the sequences of events as ascertained by us.
The problem then is, "by what combination of natural laws does a new 'common nature' appear upon the scene of realized existence?
Natural laws may be likened to intellectual type of a higher order, partly movable, partly stereotyped, which last on new editions of experience may become downright impediments.
Of the former we may speak then as carried on under the operation of natural laws; the other may be described as special interferences not antagonistic, but supplementary, to natural laws, and forming part of the original design.
Hence arose in the first instance the term "natural laws," or "laws of nature.
Belief, certainly, just now, in the permanence of natural laws.
Was there then any breach ofnatural laws (beyond that of inertia) in causing such winds to blow?
We have now to consider the strictly physical phenomena to which the name of miracles is in this discussion confined, and to which the objection that they are contrary to natural laws is commonly stated.
These are formed by moving into proximity, or admixture, the elementary ingredients, under circumstances favourable to their union in the desired combination, and the combination then proceeds by the operation of natural laws.
And the question of the prolonged existence of this comparatively new social phenomenon, either in its present or some modified form, turns, therefore, entirely on the quasi-natural laws of the social body.
All this multitude will have this much in common, that it will be dealing, not with the primary inexorable logic of natural laws, but with the shifting, uncertain prejudices and emotions of the general mass of people.
It depends upon a sequence of ideas arising, and of experiments made, and upon laws of political economy, almost as inevitable as natural laws.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural laws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
