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Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book, Tenermons of Religion by Theodore Parker, published in 1853.

Everywhere in the world there is a natural law.

That is, a constant mode of action which

seems to belong to the nature of things, to the constitution of the universe.

This fact is universal.

This mode of action is referred to by different names, such as the law of matter, the law of mind, the law of morals, and the like.

In other words, it means a certain mode of action which belongs to the material, mental, or moral forces,

the mode in which commonly these forces are seen to act, and in which it is their ideal to act always.

The ideal laws of matter we only know from the fact that they are always obeyed.

To us the actual obedience is the only witness of the ideal rule,

for with respect to the conduct of the material world,

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