Literary notes about REGULATION (AI summary)
The term "regulation" in literature is portrayed as a multifaceted concept that extends far beyond mere rules or restrictions. In some works, it governs the cosmic and natural order—for instance, as a means of controlling time and its celestial events ([1])—while in others it establishes legal frameworks and social order ([2], [3], [4]). It appears in diverse contexts, from the literal enactment of laws in political treatises ([5], [6], [7]) and Masonic orders ([8], [9], [10]) to metaphorical applications guiding individual behavior and thought processes ([11], [12]). Moreover, its usage covers both abstract regulation, as in the shaping of social ideals ([13], [14]), and practical measures, such as mechanical or administrative control ([15], [16]). This range demonstrates literature’s use of "regulation" as a dynamic term that underscores the interplay between law, society, and the natural order ([17], [18]).
- In his character of Time, he not only presides over its extinction, but also its astronomical regulation.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - How hurtful soever in themselves, these, or some other restraints upon importation, became necessary in consequence of that regulation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - In 1731, a regulation was adopted, permitting the Grand Stewards to appoint their successors.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - This desirable uniformity can only be accomplished by confiding the regulation of the militia to the direction of the national authority.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - If he break this regulation, the penalty shall be death, and his property shall be confiscated.
— from Laws by Plato - The interest of the duke of Cornwall has given occasion to a regulation nearly of the same kind in that ancient dutchy.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government, is impossible to be foreseen.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - This is an old regulation, founded on those principles of comity and brotherly love that should exist among all Masons.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - Another regulation is, that no lodge can confer more than two degrees, at one communication, on the same candidate.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - But the words of the old regulation seem expressly, and without equivocation, to require that every member present shall vote.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - Regulation of thinking by its purpose Demand for the solution of a perplexity is the steadying and guiding factor in the entire process of reflection.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Direction expresses the basic function, which tends at one extreme to become a guiding assistance and at another, a regulation or ruling.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Only from it, and from its proper regulation and potency, comes the other, comes the chance of individualism.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - It is a natural regulation of human relationships, so that men can develop ideals of life in co-operation with one another.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore - An interesting detail of the system is the automatic regulation of air-pressure in the main reservoir by the air-pump governor (Fig. 90).
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - Regulation sizes of the semaphore 18 in.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
— from The History of Freedom, and Other Essays by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron - It is a matter of internal regulation—an ecclesiastical affair.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
