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Excerpt from Human Ignorance
It is a dogma of modern science, that all the phenomena of the natural world, without exception, are subject to unalterable law. Herbert Spencer has expressly defined the meaning of the term law, as it is used in this connection. He says Constant course of procedure' we call 'law.' This con stant course of procedure, then, which we observe, is what I mean when I make use of his term, law.
Henry Thomas Buckle - one of the best thinkers of modern times - wrote his Introduction to the History of Civilization in England, as a thoroughly philosophical answer to this one vast question: Are the actions of men, and therefore of society, governed by fixed laws? - and I wish to call your attention to the decisive and unanimous answer given to this question, by the most eminent philosophers of Europe and America - by the most acute thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; - and I shall do this in their own language, because their ideas are the most forcibly expressed by themselves.
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