But you will say--Hath Nature no share in the production of natural things, and must they be all ascribed to the immediate and sole operation of God?
The colours therefore of the head would to him no more suggest the idea of head(395) than they would the idea of feet.
Wherefore, Pythagoras, according to what Aristotle says in the first book of the Physics, established as the principles of natural things, the equal and the unequal; considering all things to be Number.
For if I desire to know the principles of natural things, as soon as I know these, that desire is satisfied and there is an end of it.
Now our passive intellect has the same relation to intelligible objects as primary matter has to natural things; for it is in potentiality as regards intelligible objects, just as primary matter is to natural things.
Intellectual facts are as numerous and as certain as the facts of nature; and it is through them that our experimental knowledge of natural things is raised to the dignity of scientific cognition.
This, and no other, is the object of physics, to accomplish which it is not necessary to know the essence of natural things.
It will, I doubt not, be objected that the slow and gradual methods observed in the production of natural things do not seem to have for their cause the immediate hand of an Almighty Agent.
But you will say, has Nature no share in the production of natural things, and must they be all ascribed to the immediate and sole operation of God?
Men writing or speaking under divine impulse, with a view to the promotion of religion or righteousness, would be sure, when they alluded to natural things, to speak of them according to the ideas of their times.
And so with regard to the expressions scattered up and down the Scriptures in reference to natural things, which are supposed to be inconsistent with the teachings of modern science.
Nor does it say that all its allusions to natural things will be perfectly correct; that all the stories which it tells will be told in a superhuman way.
The display of the nude human body, the natural treatment of natural things, prevented the extreme sexual irritation that is mainly caused by an artificial separation of the sexes from childhood on.
The hypocritical prudery and concealed lasciviousness of our day, that fears to call a spade a spade and to speak of natural things in a natural way, was foreign to that age.
Such questions regard, as I said, natural things; but their solution has a bearing on many other philosophical doctrines, because it materially effects the terminology by which those doctrines are to be expounded.
Now that which gives a thing its species, is after the manner of a form in natural things.
Now the agent, even in natural things, the higher it is, is so much the more one, whereas the things that are passive are various.
Nevertheless, the results of both are perfectly described by Spinoza's definition, "that a miracle was that, the cause of which cannot be explained by our natural understanding from the known principles of natural things.
I might say, indeed, that a miracle was that, the cause of which cannot be explained by our natural understanding from the known principles of natural things.
Could Spinoza have explained such phenomena by his "natural understanding from the known principles of natural things"?
But this religious idea is in contradiction with the natural sense and understanding, which concedes a real, spontaneous activity to natural things.
What interest, therefore, should Christians have in occupying themselves with material, natural things?
Thus it is clear that matter and its movement are necessity in natural things; both have to be set forth as principle, but end is the higher principle.
Aristotle’s conception of nature is, however, nobler than that of to-day, for with him the principal point is the determination of end as the inward determinateness of natural things.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
