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less occasion has it for government; because the more 

 does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself." He 

 means by this, that the more the intellect is developed, 

 the less is man inclined to encroach on the liberty of 

 liis fellow man. Thus intelligence, and altruism, are 

 evolved simultaneously. As soon as man becomes in- 

 telligent enough to perceive, that interference with 

 the rights of his fellows, jeopardizes his own rights, 

 then he needs much less than ever before, any govern- 

 ing power to compel him to keep his hands off the 

 person, or property of another. 



In our own country, where our organic law is in theory 

 based on the legal equality of all men, the inherited taint 

 of this division of the people into classes, one the rul- 

 ing class, and another the ruled, still lingers in the 

 habits of the people, and in many of the iniquitous laws 

 that are kept upon the statutes. A natural code of ethics 

 will bear equally upon all men, and not require one to 

 "bend the pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift may 

 follow fawning;" nor will it make of an elected execu- 

 tive a ruler, but a servant of the people. Oppression, in 

 the form of legal enactment, can have no place in a 

 natural code ; nor, under it, could a class of citizens, who 

 have the mental power, obtain control of government, 

 for the purpose of depriving another class of the benefits 

 of its own production. Under such a code, human laws 

 must follow the laws of nature, in bearing equally and 

 equitably upon all. 



EVOLUTION AN EQUITABLE LAW. Evolution is a natu- 

 ral law, and fortunately not arbitrarily controlled. 

 Whatever method, either in the physical, or in the 

 psychical world, falls within the principle of evolu- 

 tion, is equitable law. Those functions of matter and 

 motion which are essential, in the integration of forms, 



