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mankind are devised not with that end in view 

 but with the righteous intention of protecting 

 those weaker members of the body who are unable 

 to protect themselves. If the State does not 

 stand by such members and offer itself as their 

 shield and support, it has no claim to our obedi- 

 ence, no real right to exist, and so we put up with 

 the inconvenience, should such arise, on account 

 of the protection given to the weaker members 

 and often extended to those who would by no 

 means feel pleased if they heard themselves thus 

 described. 



Let us substitute the Church for the State and 

 let us remember that there are times when she 

 is at closer grips with the powers of evil than 

 may be the case at other times. The parallel is 

 surely sufficiently close. 



So far as earthly laws can control one, no one 

 is obliged to be a member of the Catholic Church 

 nor a citizen of the British Empire. I can, if I 

 choose, emigrate to America, in process of time 

 naturalise myself there and join the Christian 

 Science organisation or any other body to which 

 I find myself attracted. But as long as I remain 

 a Catholic and a British citizen I must submit 

 myself to the restrictions imposed by the bodies 

 with which I have elected to connect myself. 

 We arrive at the conclusion then that the ordinary 

 citizen, even if he never adverts to the fact, is 

 in reality controlled and his liberty limited in all 

 sorts of directions. 



Now the scientific man, in his own work, is sub- 

 ject to all sorts of limitations, apart altogether 



