It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
World history is a court of judgment.
History passes the final judgment.
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.