On Jan 15, 2:54=A0pm, Harv <hdaye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> to
> be the authority of the legislator; another, the interest of the
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> another, present custom, and this is the most sure. Nothing, according
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> reason alone, is just itself; all changes with time. Custom creates the
> whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. It is the
> mystical foundation of its authority; whoever carries it back to first
> principles destroys it. Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct
> faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is
> imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is
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> and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble
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> so trifling that, if he be not accustomed to contemplate the wonders of
> human imagination, he will marvel that one century has gained for it so
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> pomp and reverence. The art of opposition and of revolution is to
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> established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out
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> want of authority and justice. We must, it is said, get back to the
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> and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom has abolished.
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> is a game certain to result in the loss
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