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between organic and inorganic, living and dead, 

 but between man as the embodiment o>i personality 

 and all other created beings as void of personality. 

 Even those recent modifications or developments of 

 Law, which we may watch with some foreboding, 

 all tend in one direction. The ideal of Law is 

 universal respect for Personality, and it looks 

 forward to the time when it will recognize no 

 distinctions of race, or sex, or caste, or creed, 

 neither Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female, 

 neither bond nor free. In that increasing reverence 

 for Personality, even due considerations of subordi- 

 nation, as of wife to husband, son to father, servant 

 to master, are being more and more left out of 

 account. There is to be no respect of persons. 

 All must be equal before the law, because the 

 possession of personality throws into the shade all 

 other distinctions. It is inevitable that it should 

 sometimes seem to us that in emphasizing the fact 

 of Personality the Law is falling short of what 

 charity demands. It recognizes less and less of 

 privilege and protection. Religious tests, hereditary 

 rights, property qualifications, even the difference 

 between man and woman, all these, rightly or 

 wrongly, seem to be ignored. By the law of love 

 I am and must be " my brother's keeper." Yes ! 

 says the law of the land, but it is inconsistent with 

 a true reverence for personality that you should 

 make him a slave even for his own good. If there 



