If, then, there is natural order in the universe, there must exist an Intelligent Will to account for this natural order.
And so necessary is this inference that even one single authentic instance of natural order in an otherwise chaotic universe would oblige us to infer the existence and influence of a final cause to account for that solitary instance.
In so far forth as there is natural order there is cogent evidence of the influence of final causes.
Wherefore the soul also is second (or next to God) in honour; and third, as every one will perceive, comes the honour of the body in natural order.
We also take it for granted,' he continues, 'that there is a natural order of development in the human powers, and that studies should be so arranged as to develop the powers in this order.
But this 'natural order of the development of the human faculties,' is a seductive thing.
Such are the questions about the natural order of appearance of the faculties in childhood, as to what are the elementary faculties of the mind, as to the adaptation of the kinds and order of studies to these, etc.
The white-headed eagle takes precedence among the feathered tribes of America,--because he stands first in natural order, and has been selected by the people of the United States as their heraldic emblem.
The chinchona (it is erroneously spelt cinchona) tree constitutes the type of a natural order (Chinchonaceae), which also includes ipecacuanhas and coffees.
Certainly I do not lack faith in the constancy of natural order.
One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
Certainly I do {306} not lack faith in the constancy of natural order.
For in the Divine Persons there exists, indeed, a natural order, but there is no hierarchical order, for as Dionysius says (Coel.
I answer that, In those things which proceed from one according to a natural order, as the first is the cause of all, so that which is nearer to the first is, in a way, the cause of those which are more remote.
This is because the intellectual operation of the soul has a natural order to external things, as we have said above (Q.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type.
Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferæ) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.
The various points brought forward should be in a natural order, and each should have the prominence to which its relative importance entitles it.
The incidents should be introduced in a natural order, and their prominence should be regulated according to their relative importance.
The progress of events should be followed in a natural order, and the place and treatment of each should be according to its relative importance.
Such prayers were offered up in former days by a people who knew nothing of the inviolability of natural order, and who imagined that the weather might be changed at their bidding as the clerk may push on the hands of the church clock.
There is only our ignorance of law, not a break in natural order.
Natural Order in the minds of this school was no metaphysical figment evolved from uninstructed consciousness, but a set of circumstances to be discovered by continuous and methodical observation.
The disciples of the New Science, as it was called, the Physiocrats, or believers in the supremacy of Natural Order, went much beyond this, and in theory sought to lay open the whole ground of the fabric of society.
The Physiocrats, as we have seen, had introduced the idea of there being a natural order in social circumstances, that order being natural which is most advantageous to mankind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural order" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
