Assertion: arrogance | /r/CapableOf | prescribe law
Facets:
value: to nature
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: I cannot help suspending my narration to reflect a little on the ridiculous speculations of those swelling philosophers, whose arrogance would prescribe laws to nature, and subject those astonishing effects, which we behold daily, to their idle reasonings and chimerical rules.