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as law otherwise derived continues to have, being recognized 

 as secondary, and insisted upon only because maintenance of 

 law for its own sake indirectly furthers the general welfare. 



Finally, we see that the systems of laws belonging to these 

 successive stages, are severally accompanied by the senti 

 ments and theories appropriate to them ; and that the 

 theories at present current, adapted to the existing compromise 

 between militancy and industrialism, are steps towards the 

 ultimate theory, in- conformity with which law will have no 

 other justification than that gained by it as rnaintainer of the 

 conditious to complete life in the associated state. 



