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From: The Doctor
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:30

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of this confusion is that one affirms the essence of justice to
be the authority of the legislator; another, the interest of the sovereign;
another, present custom, and this is the most sure. Nothing, according to
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 law
and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble and
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 much
pomp and reverence. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle
established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their
want of authority and justice. We must, it is said, get back to the natural
and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom

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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
Subject: Re: Happy New Year
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