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" In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. "
World
Truth
Home
" It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. "
Law
Legal
Success
" Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. "
Progressive
People
Law
" Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. "
Sometimes
Trust
Tyranny
" The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. "
Were
Discovery
Writing
" The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. "
Over
World
Show
" The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. "
Privileged
Law
Order
" The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. "
Truth
Much
Place
" The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. "
Society
Religious
Duty
" The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. "
System
Code
World
" The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. "
Republic
Names
Her
" The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. "
Words
People
Existing
" The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. "
History
Any
Institutions
" When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. "
Development
End
Law
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