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Natural order

noun

The physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws.

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... as she had plenty of money, plenty of servants, plenty of visitors, and plenty of exercise on horseback, of which she was immoderately fond, her time passed pleasantly enough. Comfort seemed to her the natural order of life; trouble always surprised her. Her husband's friends, who mistrusted every future hour, and found matter for bitter reflection in many past ones, were to her only examples of the power of sedentary habits and excessive reading to make ...

— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw

... order to show you that what happened to me could not have happened in the natural order of things, and to enable you to understand that I was the victim ...

— Clarimonde • Theophile Gautier

... obviated if men sincerely wish it; not by any artificial contrivance, but by carrying out the natural order of human life, which recommends itself to every one in things in which he has no interest or traditional opinion running counter to it. In all human affairs, every person directly interested, and not ...

— Considerations on Representative Government • John Stuart Mill

... be effected, by moral power or physical force, and it is for you to choose which of these you prefer. Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things, and no human power can much longer perpetuate it. The opposers of abolitionists fully believe this; one of them remarked to me not long since, there is no doubt there will be a most terrible overturning at the South in a few ...

— An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South • Angelina Emily Grimke

... between the ages of the master and the pupil; in my eyes she was quite an old person, in her eyes, being her intellectual equal, I was likewise her equal in age. In the natural order of things she felt more personal sympathy for me than I for her. Consequently, I involuntarily put a dash of teasing into my instruction, and occasionally made fun of her sentimentality, and when the large lady, half angry, ...

— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes

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