History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume 1
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CHAPTER I.
ON THE GOVERNMENT OF NATURE BY LAW.
The subject of this Work proposed.—Its difficulty.
Gradual Acquisition of the Idea of Natural Government by Law.—Eventually sustained by Astronomical, Meteorological, and Physiological Discoveries.—Illustrations from Kepler’s Laws, the Trade-winds, Migrations of Birds, Balancing of Vegetable and Animal Life, Variation of Species and their Permanence.
Individual Man is an Emblem of Communities, Nations, and Universal Humanity.—They exhibit Epochs of Life like his, and, like him are under the Control of Physical Conditions, and therefore of Law.
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