bells at the bridle; but, for the captivity of age, you must forge the iron fetter, and cast the passing bell.
113. Since no law can be, in a final or true sense, established, but by right, (all unjust laws involving the ultimate necessity of their own abrogation), the law-giving can only become a law-sustaining power in so far as it is Royal, or "right doing;"—in so far, that is, as it rules, not mis-rules, and orders, not dis-orders, the things submitted to it. Throned on this rock of justice, the kingly power becomes established and establishing; "greek missing}}," or divine, and, therefore, it is literally true that no ruler can err, so long as he is a ruler, or ; perverted by careless thought, which has cost the world somewhat, into—" the king can do no wrong."
114. B. Meristic Law,[1] or that of the tenure of property, first determines what every individual possesses by right, and secures it to him; and what he possesses by wrong,
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