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  • Was there some natural law that demanded equal shares of happiness and misery in the world?†   (source)
  • Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.†   (source)
  • No one wants to invest you with a power of any kind, gunslinger; it is simply in you, and I am compelled to tell you, partly because of the sacrifice of the boy, and partly because it is the law; the natural law of things.†   (source)
  • Her mother had warned her and Evangeline often enough about respecting the Natural Laws.†   (source)
  • It rests now with ourselves to enjoy in peace and concord the blessings of self-government so long denied to mankind: to show by example the sufficiency of human reason for the care of human affairs and that the will of the majority, the natural law of every society, is the only sure guardian of the rights of man.†   (source)
  • Because Obie was certain of one thing as if it was a natural law, like gravity—Renault wasn't going to sell the chocolates.†   (source)
  • By all logical and natural laws this war should end with all the white races wiping out one another, wiping out their so-called civilisation for all time and reverting to a state of primitivism the like of which has so far only existed in your imagination when you thought of us.†   (source)
  • Nothing I learned that year or in the years that followed made me doubt the absolute truth of that natural law I discovered during the first month of the plebe system.†   (source)
  • It is an issue of natural law and a free man's inherent right to maintain his liberty.†   (source)
  • Not even its phase appeared fixed, for there were moments when its dreadful bulk abruptly flickered and became translucent, as if some natural law rebelled against its presence in this world.†   (source)
  • All this was inviolable, like any set of natural laws.†   (source)
  • Could say our customs are natural laws because are way people have to behave to stay alive.†   (source)
  • To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.†   (source)
  • It was like all the natural laws had changed on them, and suddenly steel was soft and flesh was hard, rock was brittle and leather weak as grass.†   (source)
  • It was all he wanted—a genuine miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences.†   (source)
  • According to natural law.†   (source)
  • But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una's death breached his battlements.†   (source)
  • Reflection of Natural Law, you think.†   (source)
  • Natural law governed all mankind, even slaves.†   (source)
  • "Like those who think it's okay to use the government to force you to do what's against natural law.†   (source)
  • Chaos was the natural law of the universe.†   (source)
  • If all goes well, if they bring it off, some natural law of perfect ion is obeyed.†   (source)
  • People had progressed steadily in their understanding of natural laws.†   (source)
  • Because the same natural laws are in operation.†   (source)
  • God controls the world through natural laws.†   (source)
  • Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.†   (source)
  • He regarded the natural laws as proof of the existence of the great and almighty God.†   (source)
  • He demonstrated that a few natural laws apply to the whole universe.†   (source)
  • She knew speaking the words would defy the Natural Laws.†   (source)
  • Would you explain the natural law I violated?†   (source)
  • Or don't you believe in natural law, Colonel?†   (source)
  • Natural law may be invariable throughout a universe—seems to be, in rigid universes.†   (source)
  • The invariability of natural law is the cornerstone of science.†   (source)
  • But I was leading up to the subject of 'natural law.'†   (source)
  • I went on firmly, "Natural law never takes a holiday.†   (source)
  • What is evil, if not a natural law?†   (source)
  • And because this natural law was based on timeless human and universal reason, it did not alter with time and place.†   (source)
  • At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†   (source)
  • It's a natural law.†   (source)
  • In calculating the planetary orbits he had merely applied two natural laws which Galileo had already proposed.†   (source)
  • Thus God is reduced to the 'Supreme Being' who only reveals himself to mankind through nature and natural laws, never in any 'supernatural' way.†   (source)
  • When Newton had proved that the same natural laws applied everywhere in the universe, one might think that he thereby undermined people's faith in God's omnipotence.†   (source)
  • Hume did not deny the existence of unbreakable 'natural laws,' but he held that because we are not in a position to experience the natural laws themselves, we can easily come to the wrong conclusions.†   (source)
  • Most everyone in Bedley Run knows me, though at the same time I've actually come to develop an unexpected condition of transparence here, a walking case of others' certitude, that to spy me on my way down Church Street is merely noting the expression of a natural law.†   (source)
  • The legislator and prosecutor, the zealous proponent and some would say manipulator of the law, the man who had repeatedly told representatives from the press that he was a reasonable person, one with no animosity toward the black race but simply a man who believed deeply in natural laws as God and the founding fathers of this great country had intended, was Andrew T. Judson, now a federal district judge appointed by President Martin Van Buren.†   (source)
  • —and mind you, things were even worse when this custom, or natural law, first showed itself back in twentieth century.†   (source)
  • When you made a pass at Tish you were violating a natural law…. and almost caused you to breathe vacuum.†   (source)
  • But it is certain that natural laws vary from universe to universe—and believe this you must, milord, else neither of us will live long!†   (source)
  • Once selected, those leaders must have full scientific freedom to direct the bio-group in accordance with natural law, unhampered by such artificial anachronisms as statutes, constitutions, and courts of law.†   (source)
  • A natural law is a natural law.†   (source)
  • It's a natural law and the world is better off without them.†   (source)
  • …quietly the puny, unhorsed figure moving with that precarious and meretricious cleverness of animals balanced on their hinder legs; that cleverness of which the man animal is so fatuously proud and which constantly betrays him by means of natural laws like gravity and ice, and by the very extraneous objects which he has himself invented, like motor cars and furniture in the dark, and the very refuse of his own eating left upon floor or pavement; and he thinks quietly how right the…†   (source)
  • They were dominated by the weary and degrading egotism of life, which is blandly philosophical over the death of the alien, but sees in its own the corruption of natural law.†   (source)
  • By the natural law which governs all effort, what he wrote reacted upon him.†   (source)
  • The idea, my dear sir, of both natural law and universal reason is alive in international law and—†   (source)
  • That natural law surmounts every other; we can't help what it clashes with."†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the gift of Heaven—a happy convergence of natural laws.†   (source)
  • It is a natural law; every animal must fight for its own livelihood.†   (source)
  • It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.†   (source)
  • But at that moment, by an inspiration of jealousy, analogous to the inspiration which reveals to a poet or a philosopher, who has nothing, so far, but an odd pair of rhymes or a detached observation, the idea or the natural law which will give power, mastery to his work, Swann recalled for the first time a remark which Odette had made to him, at least two years before: "Oh, Mme. Verdurin, she won't hear of anything just now but me.†   (source)
  • No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint; frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.†   (source)
  • But we are also aware that if actual law is not on our side, human law is for us, natural law, the law of common-sense and conscience, which is no less binding upon every noble and honest man—that is, every man of sane judgment—because it is not to be found in miserable legal codes.†   (source)
  • That there was no law of nature that man should love mankind, and that, if there had been any love on earth hitherto, it was not owing to a natural law, but simply because men have believed in immortality.†   (source)
  • Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws and fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties which impose new restraints on the young inhabitant.†   (source)
  • The ocean outside is rising, and by a perfectly natural law of balance, the level of this lake is also rising.†   (source)
  • Do they yield so laudably to the vast and cumulative influence of such enterprise and such renown; do those little rills become absorbed so quietly and easily, and, as it were by the influence of natural laws, so beautifully, in the swoop of the majestic stream as it flows upon its wondrous way enriching the surrounding lands; that their course is perfectly to be calculated, and distinctly to be predicated?'†   (source)
  • Perhaps the necessary classification which I pointed out in the last sentence will always be less respected by a democratic people than by any other, because amongst such a people there are no men who are permanently disposed by education, culture, and leisure to study the natural laws of language, and who cause those laws to be respected by their own observance of them.†   (source)
  • Some of the leaves which were exposed to the sun had drooped a little, and this slight departure from the usual natural laws had caught the quick eyes of the Indian; for so practised and acute do the senses of the savage become, more especially when he is on the war-path, that trifles apparently of the most insignificant sort often prove to be clues to lead him to his object.†   (source)
  • Ivan Fyodorovitch added in parenthesis that the whole natural law lies in that faith, and that if you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.†   (source)
  • That old-fashioned revelling in the general situation grows less and less possible as we uncover the defects of natural laws, and see the quandary that man is in by their operation.†   (source)
  • We are few in number, we have a whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the three hundred Spartans.†   (source)
  • To science made government, to the force of things become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn of truth corresponding to a dawn of day.†   (source)
  • To this order I belong, brother goatherds, to whom I return thanks for the hospitality and kindly welcome ye offer me and my squire; for though by natural law all living are bound to show favour to knights-errant, yet, seeing that without knowing this obligation ye have welcomed and feasted me, it is right that with all the good-will in my power I should thank you for yours.†   (source)
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