James McCosh: Quotes about laws

James McCosh was British philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on law.

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“I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 429.

“As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 216.

“Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.