'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. β¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.73, North Atlantic Books
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