Man Must Necessarily Be Subject To The

Until The Content Of A Belief Is Made Clear, The Appeal To Accept The Belief On Faith Is Beside The Point, For One Would Not Know What One Has Accepted. The Request For The Meaning Of A Religious Belief Is Logically Prior To The Question Of Accepting That Belief On Faith Or To The Question Of Whether That Belief Constitutes Knowledge.

Every Wanton And Causeless Restraint Of The Will Of The Subject, Whether Practiced By A Monarch, A Nobility, Or A Popular Assembly, Is A Degree Of Tyranny.

Upon These Two Foundations, The Law Of Nature And The Law Of Revelation, Depend All Human Laws.

The Law Rarely Hesitates In Declaring Its Own Meaning; But The Judges Are Frequently Puzzled To Find Out The Meaning Of Others.

Punishments Of Unreasonable Severity, Especially Where Indiscriminately Afflicted, Have Less Effect In Preventing Crimes, And Amending The Manners Of A People, Than Such As Are More Merciful In General, Yet Properly Intermixed With Due Distinctions Of Severity.