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“This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.”

Love Law Love Is Unique Aspect Universal Mere Statements Tendencies Formulas Chemicals Laws Of Nature Electrical Affinity Gravitation

Book:Little Essays Toward Truth

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.”

Reason Facts Law Force Causes Tables Explanation Categories Formulas Generalization

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.”

Law Choices Intention Obedience Formulas Preacher Founders Fundamentalism Betrayed Reducing Best Intentions

Book:The Telling

Source: The Telling

“Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.”

Law Natural Justice Written Circumstances Demand Determined Endeavor Formulas Natural Justice

Author:Victor Cousin

“The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.”

Law Stones Tables Characteristics Formulas Prudence

Book:Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton

Source: Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton