When among yourselves disputes arise between families and individuals, how do you reconcile them?
Do you not give them arbitrators?
Yes, cried the whole multitude.
Do so then to the authors of your present dissensions.

Order those who call themselves your instructors, and who force their creeds upon you, to discuss before you their reasons.

Since they appeal to your interests, inform yourselves how they support them.
And you, chiefs and governors of the people! before dragging the masses into the quarrels resulting from your diverse opinions, let the reasons for and against your views be given.

Let us establish one solemn controversy, one public scrutiny of truth--not before the tribunal of a corruptible individual, or of a prejudiced party, but in the grand forum of mankind--guarded by all their information and all their interests.
Let the natural sense of the whole human race be our arbiter and judge..