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His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.

Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.

Available evidence regarding the natural world, the course of history, and the varieties of human action were translated into imaginative designs or mythologies.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

After the seventeenth century the audience ceased to be an organic community to which these ideas and their attendant habits of figurative language would be natural or immediately familiar.

They react in obedience to an instinct or urge which has itself been impelled by natural law.

Certainly, he must recognize its power and attempt to ascertain its influence on the flow of history, but he must not confuse the natural and the mundane with the divine.

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

Graceful as his fencing and dancing lessons had taught him to be in addition to the natural grace of his slight, wiry frame, he cut enough of a figure to have evoked a nickname in the college, to which he himself referred in Prolusion 6::

The consequences, of course, have been dreadful: reckless expansion has led to overpopulation, pollution of the earth and depletion of its natural resources.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

Krim's ( aesthetic combines anti-intellectualism, conscious and unconscious naivete ) '', and a winsome reliance `` upon the '', natural and upon experience.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

Public sentiment for conserving our rich natural heritage is growing.

They come in crisp basket weaves in natural honey hues, along with lacey open weaves with a lustre finish in natural, white, black and a whole range of colors.

He won't submit to his natural desires all the time, and it's Mother's love that is responsible for his good behavior.

By political, economic, geographic and natural standards, they were justified in doing so.

The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.