_Thou shalt not bear false witness_.

How?
by speech or by silence also?
or even by a smile?
_Thou shalt not steal_.

Ah, that indeed! But what is _to steal_?
To steal?
It is another word to be construed; and who is to be our guide?
The police will give us one construction, leaving the word only that least minimum of meaning without which society would fall in pieces; but surely we must take some higher sense than this; surely we hope more than a bare subsistence for mankind; surely we wish mankind to prosper and go on from strength to strength, and ourselves to live rightly in the eye of some more exacting potentate than a policeman.

The approval or the disapproval of the police must be eternally indifferent to a man who is both valorous and good.

There is extreme discomfort, but no shame, in the condemnation of the law.