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are tyvati SovAo*, men born to be slaves, the law 

 knows nothing of them ; philanthropy knows 

 nothing of them ; Christianity knows nothing of 

 them. And even Aristotle, who believed in their 

 existence, was puzzled to understand why they 

 were not distinguished to the eye from those who 

 were born to be free. And here again, in its aim, 

 if not in its method, its supreme reverence for 

 personality, its utter jealousy of anything which, 

 though done from the best of motives, may obscure 

 the line which separates person and thing, Law is 

 fighting side by side with Theology. 



Thus both are derived sciences ; both challenge 

 submission, and claim to speak with authority ; 

 both depend for their very existence on the fact of 

 Personality. These are points of likeness which 

 cannot be accidental. We say cannot, for, if there 

 be anything on which, in this age of warring words, 

 we are all agreed, it is the elimination of Chance. 

 And all through the biological region likeness 

 suggests kinship, and kinship a common parentage. 



II. Where, then, are we to seek the common 

 source of Theology and Law ? How can a 

 science, which includes such an unique fact as a 

 Revelation from God to man, have a common 

 origin with one which, in its evolution, if not in 

 its germ, depends so much upon experience ? 



And here, for our present purpose, we may put 

 on one side those a priori theorizings as to the 



