It is only an unusually broad instance of an institutional arrangement which has in the course of time and changing conditions come to work at cross purposes with that underlying ground of institutional arrangements that takes form in the commonplace aphorism, Live and let live.

With change setting in the direction familiar to all men today, it is only a question of limited time when the discrepancy will reach a critical pass, and the installation of peace may be counted on to hasten this course of things.
That a decision will be sought by recourse to forcible measures, is also scarcely open to question; since the established law and order provides for a resort to coercion in the enforcement of these prescriptive rights, and since both parties in interest, in this as in other cases, are persuaded of the justice of their claims.

A decision either way is an intolerable iniquity in the eyes of the losing side.

History teaches that in such a quarrel the recourse has always been to force.
History teaches also, but with an inflection of doubt, that the outworn institution in such a conjuncture faces disestablishment.

At least, so men like to believe.