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cannot see ; in morals it is the ever present Priest, 

 who walking on the earth yet holds of heaven ; 

 while in the calm royal majesty of Law it sustains 

 its kingly character. 



But here it may be objected : this is an old- 

 world view. We know better now. As for 

 religion, a man must settle that with his God, 

 if indeed there is a God, but in Ethics and in 

 Law we are wiser than our fathers. We have 

 got rid of supernaturalism. Conscience is indeed 

 a representative, and hence its authority ; but 

 in the individual it represents the crystallized 

 experience of the past, while in law it almost openly 

 professes to represent the will of the majority. It 

 is the condensed wisdom of the sovereign people. 

 Yes ! the people is sovereign, but in the grim words 

 of the Prophet of Pessimism, it is a sovereign 

 which never outgrows its minority, but is under 

 tutors and governors. And who are they ? Or if 

 we allow that law is but the expression of the judg- 

 ment of the majority, yet just in so far as it is a 

 judgment of true and false, of right and wrong, and 

 not of useful and useless, or pleasant and painful, 

 it speaks by an authority which has to be accounted 

 for. Whether it be the many or the few who 

 judge, the question must ultimately be shifted back 

 to the individual. " Who art thou that judgest 

 another ? " Is not man, in his separateness, " the 

 measure of all things ? " What right has one to 



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