natural persons

pl. Law : Such as are formed by God, in opposition to artificial persons, or those formed into corporations by human laws for purposes of government or society. IMG:content-1586.png:[blocks in formation] and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious I have called natural - selection selection will modify the structure of the young in rela. tion to the parent, and of the parent in relation to the young. In social animals it will adapt the structure of each individual for the benefit of the whole community, if the community profits by the selected change. What natural-selection cannot do, is to modify the structure of one species, without giving it any advantage, for the good of another species." -Darwin: Orig. of Species (ed. 1859), IMG:content-1587.png:[blocks in formation] Theol . & Phil .: The science which deals with the evidences for the being of God, drawn from purely natural sources, without reference to revelation. *natural-writer, s . A naturalist; a writer on natural history. "A lapwing, which bird our natural - writers name Van nellus."-Browne: Miscell . Tracts , iv. *năt-u-ral-esque (que as k), s. [Eng. natural ; -esque.] Keeping pretty closely to the characteristics of nature; as, a natura les que style of orna mentation.