LAW ( page 229 ).
Questions.
1. What is the definition of law in its ideal? What does it signify in common use? 2. What are the characteristics of command and commandment? of an edict? 3. What is a mandate? a statute? an enactment? 4. In what special connection is formula commonly used? ordinance? order? 5. What is the meaning of law in such an expression as "the laws of nature?" What in more strictly scientific use? 6. What is a code? jurisprudence? legislation? What is an economy? Is law ever a synonym for these words, and in what way?
Examples.
Order is Heaven's first ——; and this confest,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.
Those he commands move only in ——,
Nothing in love.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute ——.
We have strict ——, and most biting ——.
Napoleon gave France the best —— of —— she has ever possessed.
—— is physical, established sequence; intellectual, a condition of intellectual action in order that truth may be reached; and moral, an imperative which determines the right guidance of our higher life.