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The Common Law

CHAPTER XVI
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And a girl is deafened by the clamour....

And I don't know.
"But, it seems to me, that back of the laws men have made--if there be nothing divine in their inspiration--there is another foundation solid enough to carry them.

Because it seems to me that the world's laws--even when unjust--are built on natural laws.

And how can a girl say that these natural laws are unjust because they have fashioned her to bear children and feed them from her own body?
"And another thing, Kelly; if a man breaks a man-made law--founded, we believe, on a divine commandment--he suffers only in a spiritual and moral sense....

And with us it may be more than that.


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