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EURIPIDES

I taught them all these knowing ways

By chopping logic in my plays,

And making all my speakers try

To reason out the How and Why.

BOOKS\WALLACE_L\BEN_HUR

For that there is no logic in love, nor the least mathematical

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logic and sermons never convince,

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to one! To note the curious hard logic of passion, and the emotional

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And is their logic to outweigh

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In logic and in natural law

BOOKS\ARISTOTLE\RHETORIC

rhetoric is a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical

BOOKS\ARISTOPHANES\FROGS.txt

EURIPIDES

I taught them all these knowing ways

By chopping logic in my plays,

And making all my speakers try

To reason out the How and Why.

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witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral

grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.

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These are in a more especial manner thought to be the object of

those sciences which go by the name of logic and Metaphysics, and of

all that which passes under the notion of the most abstracted and

BOOKS\BUDDHA\GOSPEL.txt

the same man as thou?" "No, sir," interrupted Kutadanta.

Said the Buddha: "Dost thou deny that the same logic holds good

for thyself that holds good for the things of the world?" Kutadanta

BOOKS\BURKE\R_FRANCE.txt

against them. You lay down metaphysic propositions which infer

universal consequences, and then you attempt to limit logic by

despotism. The leaders of the present system tell them of their

BOOKS\BUTLER\ALLFLESH.txt

than truth, should be ordered out of court at once, no matter by how

clear a logic it had been arrived at; but what was the alternative? It

was this, that our criterion of truth -i.e., that truth is what

they are always absurd, the mean is alone practicable and it is always

illogical. It is faith and not logic which is the supreme arbiter.

They say all roads lead to Rome, and all philosophies that I have ever

course when it suited their convenience; who shrank from no conclusion

in theory, nor from any want of logic in practice so long as they were

illogical of malice prepense, and for what they held to be

BOOKS\CARUS\ON_NATUR.txt

If thou percase wouldst vary still its shapes,

That by like logic each arrangement still

Requires its increment of other parts.

BOOKS\CHAUCER\LAWYER_T.txt

They reasoned, and they argued up and down;

Full much with subtle logic there they sped;

They spoke of spells, of treachery in Rome town;

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"Love life more than the meaning of it?"

"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be

regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the

corpse! If he ran away without murdering him, who did murder him?'

Here, I repeat, you have the whole logic of the prosecution. Who

murdered him, if not he? There's no one to put in his place.

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for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing-a thing beyond

myself. Crime is common. logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic

rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded

BOOKS\DREISER\S_CARRIE.txt

When one of her mind sees many things emphasized and reemphasized

and admired, she gathers the logic of it and applies accordingly.

Drouet was not shrewd enough to see that this was not tactful. He

Carrie listened to this with mingled feelings. Her mind was shaken

loose from the little mooring of logic that it had. She was stirred by

this thought, angered by that- her own injustice, Hurstwood's,

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Lyonne's."

"Your logic has the stride of a giant, M. de Baisemeaux," said

Aramis; "and your reasoning is irresistible. But on what special

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the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment, being to

doing; being to seeming; logic to rhythm and to display; the year to

the day; the life to the year; character to performance; -- and have

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yet to learn, that the thing uttered in words is not therefore

affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can

give it evidence. The sentence must also contain its own apology for

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ends in syllogism. For they have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs

is a logic that brings salt to soup, hammer to nail, oar to boat, the

logic of cooks, carpenters, and chemists, following the sequence of

spacious, and they can hold many threads without entangling them.

All the steps they orderly take; but with the high logic of never

confounding the minor and major proposition; keeping their eye on

Their self-respect, their faith in causation, and their

realistic logic or coupling of means to ends, have given them the

leadership of the modern world. Montesquieu said, "No people have

But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a

final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English

souls; -- if you have merit, can you not show it by your good

have a scope like nature itself, a susceptibility to all impressions,

alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation. But English

science puts humanity to the door. It wants the connection which is

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conquering intelligence no man had ever reached; whose temper was

imperturbable; whose dreadful logic was always leisurely and sportive;

so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in

of the universe. The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth

and adequateness, shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial

radiation, conversant with series and degree, with effects and ends,

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CHAPTER 25

That logic is necessary

argument? The man was silent. Do you see, said Epictetus, that you

yourself are admitting that logic is necessary, if without it you

cannot know so much as this, whether logic is necessary or not

necessary

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that Barjas, the tavern-keeper, is damned. There is in these things

a logic worthy of the author of all logic. Nevertheless my unhappy

example proves that it is sometimes inconvenient that form should

the French primitives, who are superior to all the rest; as M.

Gruyer tell us they are more logical, logic being a peculiarly

French quality. Even if this is denied it must at least be admitted

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_S._ Will the Knowledge of Languages, or of logic and Rhetoric

serve to make a Man of Sense.

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report enunciated the totality of the criminalisation strategy

discussed earlier, and its logic then carried through to the

evolution of the twin "normalisation and Ulsterisation"

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that was the truth; something assured her there was a fallacy

somewhere in the glowing logic of the proposition- as he saw it-

even though she mightn't put her very finest finger-point on it; and

and the future came and went at their will, but she saw them only in

fitful images, which rose and fell by a logic of their own. It was

extraordinary the things she remembered. Now that she was in the

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that we shall be very glad we have money."

Morris Townsend listened to this robust logic in silence. "I will

leave my defense to you; it's a charge that a man has to stoop to

managed to blink her shame by reminding herself that she was, after

all, the official protector of her niece's marriage. Her logic would

scarcely have passed muster with the doctor. In the first place,

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a lawyer & member from the Northern Neck, seconded the resolns, & by

him the learning & the logic of the case were chiefly maintained. My

recollections of these transactions may be seen pa. 60, Wirt's life

an ardent mind, prompt imagination, and copious flow of words, he

heard with impatience any logic which was not his own. Sitting near

me on some occasion of a trifling but wordy debate, he asked how I

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as to the power of contracting debts, and develope it with that

perspicuity and cogent logic which is so peculiarly yours. Your

station in the councils of our country gives you an opportunity of

neutrals a trade in war not open to them in peace in which you will

find it pulverized by a logic not to be controverted.

And particularly how could Cicero bestow such eulogies on Plato?

Altho' Cicero did not wield the dense logic of Demosthenes, yet he

was able, learned, laborious, practised in the business of the world,

and researches so laborious. And it is the less necessary in this

case, as having been already done by others with a logic and learning

to which I could add nothing. On the decision of the case of Cohens

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LVI

For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line

And "Up" and "Down" by logic I define,

Of all that one should care to fathom,

Was never deep in anything but--Wine.

He bid me taste of it; and 'twas--the Grape!

LIX

The Grape that can with logic absolute

The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:

The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice

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were, when men come to the use of reason; neither would that prove

them innate. This way of arguing is as frivolous as the supposition

itself is false. For, by what kind of logic will it appear that any

notion is originally by nature imprinted in the mind in its first

constitution, because it comes first to be observed and assented to

there much more obscure, uncertain, and undetermined in their meaning,

than they are in ordinary conversation.

7. logic and dispute have much contributed to this. This is

unavoidably to be so, where men's parts and learning are estimated

by their skill in disputing. And if reputation and reward shall attend

human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were

distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us

another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto

acquainted with.

This is the first and most general division of the objects of our

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metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than

in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are

contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied

so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the

analyses of Socrates and Plato. The principles of definition, the

easily passes from ideas to myths and fancies, from facts to figures

of speech. It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it,

and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the

probabilities of history. The writer is not fashioning his ideas

into an artistic whole; they take possession of him and are too much

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Such great honour did Areius receive from Caesar; and by his

intercession many lives were saved, amongst the rest that of

Philostratus, a man, of all the professors of logic that ever were,

the most ready in extempore speaking, but quite destitute of any right

to call himself one of the philosophers of the Academy. Caesar, out of

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honest actions, accompanied with an extreme tenderness and

scrupulosity as to doing anything which might appear mean or unworthy;

so that we should need a very nice and subtle logic of

discrimination to detect and establish the distinctions between them.

As to Cato's extraction, it is confessed by all to have been

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opportunity afforded by his residence with them, of instilling into

him some notions of the Christian doctrine. Fathers Diaz and Olmedo

exhausted all their battery of logic and persuasion to shake his faith

in his idols, but in vain. He, indeed, paid a most edifying attention,

which gave promise of better things. But the conferences always closed

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several apartments, or more frequently have none at all. After an hour

or two passed in discourse, I went to my study till dinner;

beginning with some philosophical work, such as the logic of

Port-Royal, Locke's Essays, Mallebranche, Leibnitz, Descartes, etc.

I soon found that these authors perpetually contradict each other, and

was satisfied with the production, and pointed out some corrections he

thought necessary to be made. However, this composition, full of force

and fire, absolutely wants logic and order; of all the works I ever

wrote, this is the weakest in reasoning, and the most devoid of number

and harmony. With whatever talent a man may be born, the art of

BOOKS\SHAKESPEARE\allshakespeare.txt

Or so devote to Aristotle's checks

As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd.

Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,

And practise rhetoric in your common talk;

Music and poesy use to quicken you;

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the most corrupted.

Such, therefore, was the common course of philosophical

education in the greater part of the universities in Europe. logic was

taught first: Ontology came in the second place: Pneumatology,

comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and

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prepared to carry out her wishes. Of course, we had then no

alternative but to accept. We were right in principle, and ninety-nine

times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic of

events, the accuracy of our judgment. Frankly, however, I must admit

that in this case any other form of disposition would have rendered

He saw my hesitation, and spoke:-

"The logic is simple, no madman's logic this time, jumping from

tussock to tussock in a misty bog. If it be not true, then proof

will be relief, at worst it will not harm. If it be true! Ah, there is

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earth," he adds elsewhere, "especially if fresh, has a certain

magnetism in it, by which it attracts the salt, power, or virtue (call

it either) which gives it life, and is the logic of all the labor

and stir we keep about it, to sustain us; all dungings and other

sordid temperings being but the vicars succedaneous to this

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victorious by Russian historians.

The Russian military historians in so far as they submit to claims

of logic must admit that conclusion, and in spite of their lyrical

rhapsodies about valor, devotion, and so forth, must reluctantly admit

that the French retreat from Moscow was a series of victories for

small northwesterly portion of a large continent.

Modern history has rejected the beliefs of the ancients without

replacing them by a new conception, and the logic of the situation has

obliged the historians, after they had apparently rejected the

divine authority of the kings and the "fate" of the ancients, to reach

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granitic formation. In this we shall undoubtedly find innumerable

springs. The nature of the rock makes this a mathematical certainty,

and instinct agrees with logic to say that it is so. Now, this is

the serious proposition which I have to make to you. When

Christopher Columbus asked of his men three days to discover the

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shall be here!' I speak in the present, 'We are here, and we must

profit by it.'"

Ned Land's logic pressed me hard, and I felt myself beaten on that

ground. I knew not what argument would now tell in my favor.

"Sir," continued Ned, "let us suppose an impossibility; if Captain

BOOKS\WALLACE_L\BEN_HUR

"Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in

the law to which I reduced pure religion, that death was only the

and to save her portion of the property, the law required her to marry

all the law of their simple lives- that their Lord was One God, and

mysteries of the Jewish law and history. It was, in short, a meeting

"There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations;

must worship something is a law which will continue as long as there

largess of royal patrons. He had welcomed the law that bound him to

instant he became serious. "You know the law requires me to follow

"But that is not what I am thinking of. The law does not require the

the law and its forms as in the ages of their decay.

children compared to the Hebrew whose law a Jew must obey."

and in the seventh, by the law of Moses, I went free."

the law after the straitest sect, though not of them. He said I was

for the law of this happy place is Love.'"

sufferable. The law of the place was Love, but Love without law.

those who lived by the law of Moses, and those who lived by the law of

Brahma. They alone could have cried you, Better a law without love

good and beautiful: in her tongue was the law of kindness, and her

in natures, and the law by which we are not permitted always to take

were strict constructionists and rigorous observers of the law as

things of which he had been witness, unaccountable by any law of

me to be worthy my name, and what thou art in law to me, that will I

told it with reference to the law of that time, only a little modified

To that the mistress and Tirzah must come; for the law was inexorable,

through the Soul. In that law see the necessity of which I spoke.

which were blue and white, as prescribed by law for rabbis. His

little less than a law of our nature to spend life in eager pursuit of

certain objects; now appealing to that law as something by which we

told them, 'Go, show yourselves to the priest, as the law requires;

The law forbade her!

"The ban of the law is upon you, too; you cannot return to

the healing, the law being fulfilled, Ben-Hur brought his mother and

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Nay, the law is sternly set-

When the sinner out-steppeth the law and heedeth the high God not;

For even o'er Powers divine this law is strong-

He died the death law bids adulterers die.

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Stern and fixed the law is; we have hands t' achieve it,

Lo, the law stands-The slayer shall not plead,

Who treads beyond the law with foot impure,

The law of bloodshed, hear me now ordain.

So long as law stands as it stood of old

Uncurbed by law nor curbed by tyranny;

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And climb the couch by law denied,

Doth your own hate, or doth the law forbid?

Whose immemorial law doth rule Fate's scales aright:

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Nay, the law is sternly set-

When the sinner out-steppeth the law and heedeth the high God not;

For even o'er Powers divine this law is strong-

He died the death law bids adulterers die.

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Stern and fixed the law is; we have hands t' achieve it,

Lo, the law stands-The slayer shall not plead,

Who treads beyond the law with foot impure,

The law of bloodshed, hear me now ordain.

So long as law stands as it stood of old

Uncurbed by law nor curbed by tyranny;

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And climb the couch by law denied,

Doth your own hate, or doth the law forbid?

Whose immemorial law doth rule Fate's scales aright:

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which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard

to follow the reason and the law of the most ancient city and polity.

behave towards him according to the natural law of fellowship with

is so, there is a common law also; if this is so, we are

Follow God. The poet says that law rules all.- And it is enough to

remember that law rules all.

same law with God?

He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master,

and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he also who is grieved

harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or

are agreeable to law and according to the worth of each. And let

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instance of (2) would be the law that proportionals alternate.

of a basic truth, which can only be the primary law of the genus

The law that it is impossible to affirm and deny simultaneously

The law that every predicate can be either truly affirmed or truly

law of excluded middle, the law that the subtraction of equals from

Nor can any of the common axioms-such, I mean, as the law of

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Council of Areopagus, on declaring what law was broken by the wrong

according to the property classes may be found in the law still in

made a law with express reference to such persons, enacting that any

attain ideal perfection when framing a law in general terms; for we

And many a man whom fraud or law had sold

Since by the force of law I won my ends

establishment of a tyranny. The law ran as follows: 'These are the

use of the law of ostracism. This had originally been passed as a

tyrants, on whose account the law had been passed; but in the

evasion of the law was overlooked. Four years later, in the archonship

the power to inflict death or imprisonment or fine, passing a law that

elected by lot, one from each tribe. According to the law of

The Council also examines infirm paupers; for there is a law which

arbitrations which the lot assigns to him. The law enacts that any one

the law enacts that he shall lose his civil rights. The persons thus

indictments for illegal proposals, or for proposing a law which is

the procedure has lapsed, though the law remains; and the oil is a

resolution or law or affidavit or treaty. When, however, a case is

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persuade, nor a statesman whether he shall produce law and order,

the rightly-framed law does this rightly, and the hastily conceived

the majority of the acts commanded by the law are those which are

the law bids us practise every virtue and forbids us to practise any

are those of the acts prescribed by the law which have been prescribed

good or a bad man that has committed adultery; the law looks only to

and selling and in all other matters in which the law has left

nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it and make

relations are governed by law; and law exists for men between whom

legal justice. The reason is that all law is universal but about

and would have put into his law if he had known. Hence the equitable

equitable, a correction of law where it is defective owing to its

than his share though he has the law oft his side, is equitable, and

right rule of life, and this the law does not allow; therefore he is

of law or be a party to an agreement; therefore there can also be

bargained with him. The law holds that it is more just that the person

man, unless he be a king or something similar), but the law has

BOOKS\ARISTOTLE\POLITICS

Each one gives law to his children and to his wives.

perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and

that the distinction between slave and freeman exists by law only, and

slave are used in two senses. There is a slave or slavery by law as

well as by nature. The law of which I speak is a sort of convention-

the law by which whatever is taken in war is supposed to belong to the

simply to a principle of justice (for law and custom are a sort of

common interest, but where it rests merely on law and force the

and not rebel. In a word, the result of such a law would be just the

in which the rich are compelled by law to attend the assembly and vote

children are too many for the property, the law must be broken. And,

the Locrians, for example, there is a law that a man is not to sell

preservation of the original lots. Such a law existed in the island of

But if there is a law that artisans are to be public slaves, it should

To the existing law he objected that it obliged the judges to be

Neither is the law to commended which says that the judges, when a

but in courts of law this is impossible, and, indeed, most legislators

laws of a country, even if another law be better. Now, if an changes

at Cumae there is a law about murder, to the effect that if the

disobedience. The analogy of the arts is false; a change in a law is a

very different thing from a change in an art. For the law has no power

particular law is good or bad, when compared with the perfect state;

at all, or, if any, but small or moderate ones. As the law now stands,

Again, the law which relates to the procreation of children is adverse

large families; and there is a law at Sparta that the father of

that they run away from the law into the secret indulgence of

The law about the Spartan admirals has often been censured, and with

all matters of this kind are better regulated by law than by the

such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which

and were retained by him, but that he formed the courts of law out

to the law courts, which are elected by lot, he is thought to have

destroyed the non-democratic element. When the law courts grew

meals of women, and the law about drinking, that the sober shall be

constitution; he has a law which is peculiar to him, that, if a

majority of them are rich. At Thebes there was a law that no man could

many states the law goes to the length of admitting aliens; for in

children; the law is relaxed when there is a dearth of population. But

destructive of a state; and therefore this law of confiscation clearly

supreme power, rather than the law. But what if the law itself be

tyrants are mercenaries. For kings rule according to law over

passion than that in which it is innate. Whereas the law is

all other cases retaining their authority. But when the law cannot

but fill up the gaps which the law is obliged to leave. Or, if such

which the law seems unable to determine, but in such cases can a

man? Nay, it will be replied, the law trains officers for this express

suggests. Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid

minds of rulers, even when they are the best of men. The law is reason

seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is

authority to decide some matters which the law is unable to determine,

since no one doubts that the law would command and decide in the

nexted question whether the best law or the best man should rule.

the law judges well; and it would surely seem strange that a person

multitude able to rule and to obey in turn by a law which gives office

strictly on equality. In such a democracy the law says that it is just

but still the law is supreme. In another, everybody, if he be only a

citizen, is admitted to the government, but the law is supreme as

and supersede the law by their decrees. This is a state of affairs

subject to the law the best citizens hold the first place, and there

there is no constitution. The law ought to be supreme over all, and

already given; so that in this form again the law must rule. A

government being a numerous body, it follows that the law must govern,

the law, they make the law represent their wishes. When this power

own hands, and the law ordains that the son shall succeed the

before, royal, in so far as the monarch rules according to law over

the prohibitions of the law without altering it, and any one who has

those forms of democracy and oligarchy which are regulated by law into

abolish this law and allow their generals to hold perpetual

they afterwards consented, thinking that, if only this one law was

were fixed, there should be power given by law to raise or lower the

by law that its magistrates cannot possibly make money. In oligarchies

And honors should be given by law to magistrates who have the

body. The same law of proportion equally holds in states. Oligarchy or

for services; assembly, law courts, magistrates, everybody receives

or the acropolis. Formerly in many states there was a law forbidding

the law of the Aphytaeans, who, although they are numerous, and do not

heart should counteract them, and make a law that the property of

except any which the law assigns to the priests; such sacrifices

law, probuli, councillors- of these, the guardians of the law are an

once a law in Macedonia that he who had not killed an enemy should

by law and others by custom. Yet to a reflecting mind it must appear

slaves. And therefore he who violates the law can never recover by any

reason, and the same result will follow. For law is order, and good

says, by a law of Sesostris in Egypt and of Minos in Crete. The

sense of honor. Wherefore there is a law in some places which

of those rites which the law or the Pythian oracle has restricted to a

principle and no law having this object is either statesmanlike or

As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that

at whose festivals the law permits even ribaldry, and whom the law

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of

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about: for nature (they said) and law are opposites, and justice is

man who agrees with the law by leading him to the facts of nature: for

the standard of nature was the truth, while that of the law was the

of nature and law: for the law represents the opinion of the majority,

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non-essentials. This is sound law and custom. It is not right to

danger, in accordance with the law and in obedience to its commands;

to obey the law where physical pleasures are concerned; incontinence

I mean that written law which regulates the life of a particular

deliberately intending harmful and wicked acts contrary to law are (1)

classes of persons. By the two kinds of law I mean particular law

and universal law. Particular law is that which each community lays

unwritten. Universal law is the law of Nature. For there really is, as

is necessary, the law must be expressed in wide terms; and so, if a

whose account a law is passed, and also on those on whose account

permanent and changeless, and that the universal law does not change

either, for it is the law of nature, whereas written laws often do

that sham justice is not, and that consequently the written law is

law in preference to the written. Or perhaps that the law in

contradicts itself. Thus it may be that one law will enact that all

make illegal contracts. Or if a law is ambiguous, we shall turn it

if, though the law still exists, the situation to meet which it was

combat the law thereby. If however the written law supports our

they misunderstand what the law really means. Or that no one chooses

than the laws is just what is forbidden by those codes of law that are

kind; and that, while contracts do not of course make the law binding,

the law does make any lawful contract binding, and that the law itself

repudiates any contract is repudiating the law itself. Further, most

are suitable which we can use to fight a law that tells against us. We

do not regard ourselves as bound to observe a bad law which it was a

see if the contract contravenes either universal law or any written

for prosecution and defence in the law courts. We have considered

that is, in law suits and in political debates, in both of which there

further instance of induction may be taken from the law of Theodectes:

short men boys'. And Theodectes in his law said, 'You make citizens of

the laws required a law to set them right. 'Why', he went on, 'fish

cutting through Athos'; 'nature gave them their country and law took

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metaphorically, nor yet literally, as when the law is said to be the

nor is the law ordinarily so called in a literal sense. So then, if

a man says that the law is literally a 'measure' or an 'image', he

emendation of the existing law and, if the emendation is better,

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disgraceful and forbidden by law on earth is on the contrary

the law of the strongest in their due turn? But tell me, where are you

But we have also an ancient law written in the code of the storks,

friend. The law will not allow you an obolus of the paternal property,

The law forbids it, and this same Posidon would be the first to

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I think the meaning of the law is quite misunderstood.

But the law nowhere admits that fathers should be treated thus.

Was not the legislator who carried this law a man like you and me?

pursue them at law or shall I....? Order and I obey.-You are right, no

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the flat-nosed to whom the law gives the right to make love first;

No, but in accordance with the new law that has been decreed, I am

nonsense about that, for my authority is the law and the law must be

It's not I but the law that leads you off.

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silent on high and by an unwearied law dispensing penal blindness to

Thy law prescribes, O Lord: who this way formest the offspring of this

Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the

according to custom, but out of the most rightful law of God Almighty,

should all stand guilty of the same crime, by the law of God, which

he not find Thy law in his own punishment? And Thy law is truth, and

is the law of them. Thus much has Thou allotted them, because they are

as lawful what by Thy eternal law shall never be lawful; and they

I know not whom, who wished to engraff the law of the Jews upon the

I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets

might practise something of the law he had studied, more to please his

For, though a man be delighted with the law of God after the inner

man, what shall he do with that other law in his members which warreth

against the law of his mind, and bringeth him into captivity to the

This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and

Emperor Julian a law was made, whereby Christians were forbidden to

according to the inner man, when another law in my members rebelled

against the law of my mind, and led me captive under the law of sin

which was in my members. For the law of sin is the violence of custom,

sitting released from his law business, and awaiting to whom to sell

be mortified. They tell thee of delights, but not as doth the law of

fast for ever and ever, Thou hast given it a law which it shall not

subversion of the hearers. But the law is good to edify, if a man

Master know, upon which two commandments He hung all the law and the

and before my brethren, who employ Thy law lawfully, to the end of

many should occur, where many may occur; this being the law my

been the ministers of the law unto us, as in the firmament which is

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runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first

putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man

there is no law to punish; else a man's enemy is still before hand,

of his law or sect; a quarrel that he may always command. The

remember, what the apostle saith of a greater law than theirs; Nos

man will give law to himself in it.

Sumptuary law: law against extravagance

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038:013 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth

Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the

047:026 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,

012:049 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the

a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in

018:006 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come

018:008 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done

Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

018:014 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the

018:017 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou

018:027 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way

006:009 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the

006:014 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron

006:025 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of

007:001 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most

one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith

007:011 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which

007:037 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering,

011:046 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every

This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

013:059 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of

014:002 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his

014:032 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose

014:054 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and

law of leprosy.

015:032 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose

005:029 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to

006:013 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his

006:021 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his

must do after the law of his separation.

015:016 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger

015:029 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,

019:002 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath

the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD

004:044 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of

017:011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach

kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book

to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do

027:026 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to

028:058 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that

words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

001:008 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but

Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an

008:032 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,

written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not

024:026 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God,

father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites,

answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he

019:007 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged

her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to

001:015 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her

me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the

law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave

002:019 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned

knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom

003:001 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall

that her mother in law bade her.

of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband

her father in law and her husband.

father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the

law in the one of the twain.

and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses,

the son in law of the house of Ahab.

010:031 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of

that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein

according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and

ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD

according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And

put away, that he might perform the words of the law which

all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither

002:004 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All

according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which

kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of

to do the law and the commandment.

017:009 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the

dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and

offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses,

the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded,

the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the

law of the LORD.

might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the

found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And

according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses

the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and

007:010 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD,

the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a

according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall

007:026 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of

the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son

unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses,

008:002 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation

008:008 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and

008:014 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded

in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven

law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and

and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets

the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah

priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I

so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and

called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except

022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his

001:002 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth

019:007 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the

037:031 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall

040:008 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my

081:004 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of

119:001 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of

119:044 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

119:072 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold

law is my delight.

119:092 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have

119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my

the law of thy mother:

006:023 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and

007:002 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of

013:014 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the

028:004 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep

the law contend with them.

028:007 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a

law of kindness.

the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the

008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according

that will not hear the law of the LORD:

for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment

the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me,

008:008 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with

009:013 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I

Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor

sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was

Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision

law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the

043:012 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the

this is the law of the house.

it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and

according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth

king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is,

poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of

009:013 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come

they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his

his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of

against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in

001:004 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go

002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found

seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD

004:004 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded

you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the

011:013 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

022:040 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

002:022 And when the days of her purification according to the law of

002:023 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that

the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young

002:039 And when they had performed all things according to the law of

there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which

daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her

daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in

016:016 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the

of the law to fail.

fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the

001:017 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by

007:049 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

007:051 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what

008:005 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned:

012:034 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that

018:013 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to

019:007 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought

007:053 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and

013:015 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers

from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

to command them to keep the law of Moses.

have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are

and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the

things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

025:008 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the

the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till

002:012 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish

without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be

002:013 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the

doers of the law shall be justified.

are a law unto themselves:

002:015 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their

law dishonourest thou God?

003:019 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to

003:020 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be

justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of

003:021 But now the righteousness of God without the law is

manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

Nay: but by the law of faith.

003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,

004:014 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,

004:015 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is

005:013 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not

005:020 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But

law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he

007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her

is loosed from the law of her husband.

007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by

007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had

except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment

007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,

007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold

007:022 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

007:023 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law

of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin

mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law

008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me

free from the law of sin and death.

008:003 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the

008:004 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,

subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

009:031 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,

hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every

006:006 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the

go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong?

007:039 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;

009:008 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same

009:009 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle

without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might

014:021 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other

the law shall no flesh be justified.

002:019 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live

003:010 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the

not in all things which are written in the book of the law to

003:011 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,

003:012 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them

003:021 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for

if there had been a law given which could have given life,

003:024 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto

005:014 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou

006:002 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of

002:015 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of

001:008 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

001:009 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,

007:016 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but

007:019 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a

007:028 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but

009:022 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and

010:001 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not

010:028 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or

001:025 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and

002:008 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou

convinced of the law as transgressors.

law of liberty.

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principles of jurisprudence to draw a principle from a law made in a

competence and power would soon be confounded and no law be left but

the new, by the statute law operating on the principles of the

describing the persons. Both these descriptions of law are of the same

On this principle, the law of inheritance had admitted some

obtained the crown by law or by force, the hereditary succession was

body of our statute law which passed under those whom they treat as

inheritance as King James did. He came in according to the law as it

by the law as it stood at their several accessions of Protestant

The law by which this royal family is specifically destined to the

solid principles of law and policy. If all the absurd theories of

conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

As he is not to obey us, but as we are to obey the law in him, our

produce to them the positive statute law which affirms that he is not.

only security for law and liberty. If you are desirous of knowing

standing law of the kingdom. In the matter of fact, for the greater

In the famous law of the 3rd of Charles I, called the Petition

the old common law of Europe meliorated and adapted to its present

faculty of law was joined a pretty considerable proportion of the

as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming the makers

of law for England. The power, however, of the House of Commons,

his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only

right of self-defense, the first law of nature. Men cannot enjoy the

there were neither law nor authority nor power left to protect? What

the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity. In

destruction. This people refused to change their law in remote ages

each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will

the law is broken, nature is disobeyed, and the rebellious are

duties imposed upon us by the law of social union as, upon any pretext

upon any principles of law or of policy, but as a cause, for the

undoubtedly it was, with law and liberty, had yet been every day

nothing, law and usage are nothing. I see the National Assembly openly

by the law of nations. But you, who began with refusing to submit to

it; when the law had long made their adherence to its rules a ground

any constitutional law of the state. They have departed from the

has derived its birth from no law and no necessity, but which, on

of the wisest counsels. In vain will the law attempt to anticipate

some time or other, you intend to give them some law by which they are

if they submit to, they leave no ground of law to the subject. They

not by what law they judge, nor under what authority they act, nor

Assembly is not to be subject to law either for protection or for

pleasure and giving that as law to you which, under your authority, is

transmitted as law to us. Through you these burghers dispose of the

them, you could have made the law that degrades them. You have

of value in commerce, because in law it is of none. It is powerful

degenerate imitation. It is not true that law built solely on a

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*(2) With respect to insects see Dr. Laycock, "On a General law of

and in this case man obeyed, as might have been expected, the law of

Polynesians, have very wide ranges. It is a well-known law that

growth; but of this law I have found no good instance in the case of

not been lost; and we positively know that the same law holds good

proofs and examples of the Darwinian principle of reversion, or law of

consequently to the rigid law of natural selection. Beneficial

The savage would certainly neither know nor care by what law the

flattery, nor by any threat, but merely by holding up thy naked law in

name, though not a relation. "To violate this law is a crime which the

exemplified by the law of Honour, that is, the law of the opinion of

from the law of the deviation from an average, that prodigies of

died.* A similar law was proved to hold good, during the years 1863

by the law of battle and other customs of which vestiges still remain,

man. It is not probable that, through the law of analogous

Seeing how general is this law of the susceptibility of the

as Kirby remarks, "the law is that the male shall seek the female."*

seems a law almost as general as the eagerness of the male.

it is also, as we have seen, an extremely general law that the adult

some unknown law leading to this result in decreasing races, which

the same law prevailing throughout the great sub-kingdom of the

law of Battle.- Some male beetles, which seem ill-fitted for

to one sex, according to the law of inheritance which has prevailed.

the law of battle does not prevail nearly so widely with insects as

through the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes,

law of Battle.- Almost all male birds are extremely pugnacious,

on the law of battle, are in most cases highly ornamented; and their

sexual selection, and asks, "What explanation does the law of

The force of the present law is well shewn in those groups, in

of the law that secondary sexual characters are often widely different

the young. For it is known that, when the law of inheritance at

failure of the law of inheritance at corresponding ages, at some

have plenty of food; and a somewhat similar law may prevail with the

parents; so that we must look to the law of sexually-limited

modified, must at present remain doubtful. When, through the law of

Whenever the law of inheritance at corresponding ages prevails but

the law of battle than through the display of his charms. The most

The law of battle prevails with aquatic as with terrestrial mammals.

will have tended, in accordance with the law often indicated, to

still retained by the young; and owing to the law of inheritance at

Summary.- The law of battle for the possession of the female appears

The law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes, as

law of Battle.- With savages, for instance, the Australians, the

higher Quadrumana,* that the law of battle had prevailed with man

from the law of the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by

of her by the law of might; or, as when they speak of a polygamous

have been acquired through the law of battle. The semi-human

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case. The law of correlated variation, the importance of which

that, owing to the law of correlation, when one part varies, and the

scale of nature the law of battle descends, I know not; male

to believe that it is a general law of nature that no organic being

On the belief that this is a law of nature, we can, I think,

general law of good being derived from the intercrossing of distinct

individuals is a very general, if not universal, law of nature.

surface, his law "that homologous units of any order become

their law of compensation or balancement of growth; or, as Goethe

nature it can hardly be maintained that the law is of universal

grouped them under his law of Equable Variability.

possibly even the form of the pelvis; and then by the law of

Summary: the law of Unity of Type and of the Conditions of Existence

variation. Hence, in fact, the law of the Conditions of Existence is

necessary law of development, but is powerless against the doctrine of

of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic

universal law of nature. He experimented on some of the very same

fixed law of development, causing all the inhabitants of an area to

most decisive of all trials- the law of battle. Besides these inherent

Old World. We see the same law in this author's restorations of the

of the caves of Brazil. Mr. Woodward has shown that the same law holds

Now what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same

pretended that it is an immutable law that marsupials should have been

that in America the law of distribution of terrestrial mammals was

On the theory of descent with modification, the great law of the

and stations. It is a law of the widest generality, and every

existence of any law of necessary development. As the variability of

The same law which has determined the relationship between the

probably accounts for a law which has long been observed, and which

bones in widely different animals. We see the same great law in the

two pairs of maxillae. The same law governs the construction of the

is with very many other animals. A trace of the law of embryonic

still obey, more or less closely, the law of common embryonic

this to be a universal law of nature; and we may hope hereafter to see

the law proved true. It can, however, be proved true only in those

first appeared. It should also be borne in mind, that the law may be

of demonstration. The law will not strictly hold good in those cases

in innovation. But why this should be a law of nature if each

wonderful law of the long endurance of allied forms on the same

discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of

MORPHOLOGY, The law of form or structure independent of function.

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is only the law of Christ speaking in his conscience. It is only by

the difference is that besides the established law courts we have

men love their neighbours. That there was no law of nature that man

that the whole natural law lies in that faith, and that if you were to

or immortality, the moral law of nature must immediately be changed

prejudice, but even now the law does not allow you to drag your old

to make use of papers I've signed to go to law against me. And so I

and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for

"No, you show me this: you tell me the law that allows roguery.

meet? It seems to be a law of their nature."

would show what a blessing reformed law courts are. I knew nothing

we'll drink to the reformed law courts. I don't believe he'd be

the old slaveman, if necessary. There is no law for God. Where God

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of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by

what has befallen us. Each new law and political movement has

there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found, or

History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the

the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good

his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities

or the great proprietor to walk among them by a law of his own, make

not with money but with honor, and represent the law in his person,

men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must

its presence and impure action. I see the same law working in nature

henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no

the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one

popular code. If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep

some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy

This law writes the laws of cities and nations. It is in vain

code sanguinary, juries will not convict. If the law is too mild,

this back-stroke, this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is

overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.

the operative. The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall

On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all

advertisements of a nature whose law is growth. Every soul is by

superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level

would show us, that a higher law than that of our will regulates

he can compel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice. All

shine through him, to suffer the law to traverse his whole being

old leaf? The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each

intelligence. But I find this law of _one to one_ peremptory for

It respects space and time, climate, want, sleep, the law of

our modes of living, and making every law our enemy, which seems at

that every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and

After its own law and not by arithmetic is the rate of its

This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise

of law to his mind, he is overflowed with a reliance so universal,

that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and

God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the

general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently

The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the

the secret law of some class of facts.

previously laid siege to the shrine. It seems as if the law of the

intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now

the blood, -- the law of undulation. So now you must labor with your

not, and respects the highest law of his being.

A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found

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him who administers the whole, as good citizens do to the law of the

What is the law of life

This also is an hypothetical law that we must accept what follows from

the hypothesis. But much before this law is the law of life, that we

showing it; for this is the law of nature and of God that the superior

by his own body, but to remember the law and to have it before his

There are certain penalties fixed as by law for those who disobey

always, and have in readiness, the truth that this is a law of nature,

is this not possible, but the law divine and strong and inevitable

the greatest crimes? For what does this law say? "Let him who pretends

general, the state, the law of the state. Give it me then, for I

must always obey the law in everything. Then, when the appearance

my own, because I want nothing, because law is everything to me, and