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1 The same is done by the natural sciences: leaving aside the question of cause, they seek for laws.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XI
2 Just so the force of man's free will is distinguished by reason from the other forces of nature only by the definition reason gives it.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
3 They do not see that the role of the natural sciences in this matter is merely to serve as an instrument for the illumination of one side of it.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
4 All that we know of the external world of nature is only a certain relation of the forces of nature to inevitability, or of the essence of life to the laws of reason.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
5 The diplomatists think that their disagreements are the cause of this fresh pressure of natural forces; they anticipate war between their sovereigns; the position seems to them insoluble.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
6 The creditors who had so long been silent, restrained by a vague but powerful influence exerted on them while he lived by the count's careless good nature, all proceeded to enforce their claims at once.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
7 The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them; we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal force, and so on, but we are conscious of the force of life in man and we call that freedom.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
8 Restoring the essential condition of relation between those who command and those who execute, we find that by the very nature of the case those who command take the smallest part in the action itself and that their activity is exclusively directed to commanding.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
9 This assumption is all the more natural and inevitable because, watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.
War and Peace 6By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I