We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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