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and moral state of its members, of the condition, more or less elevated, of their intelli- 

 gence, of the sentiments and motives with which they are inspired in their actions. As 

 Christ said : 'The kingdom of God is within you ;' Plato and Krause say : The State, 

 which ought to realize the divine idea of right, is originally iu you" {Cours de Droit 

 Naturel, g 105). 



(/) For this subject the term Nomology, or the science of Nomos, or positive morality 

 (mores), would be an appropriate name. It would treat of both the theory, and the 

 natural history, the mode of genesis, and existing state of positive morality, and of its 

 relation to theoretical morality. 



(g) " There can be no democratic State, unless the mass of the population of a given 

 State have attained a consensus of opinion m reference to rights and wrongs, in reference 

 to government and liberty." There must be a "common custom, and a common con- 

 sciousness of rights and wrongs" (Burgess, Political Science, Vol. i, pp. 81, 82). It will be 

 observed that all modern European States are regarded by Mr. Burgess as democratic. 



