It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.