Excerpt from The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral Science
Desiring fully to understand and properly to appreciate the men around us, we study their antecedents, thereby in some measure qualifying ourselves for predicting their probable future. So, too, is it with nations. That we may understand the direction in which they are moving, whether toward civilization, wealth, and power, or toward barbarism, poverty, and weakness, it is needed that we compare their present with their past, and satisfy ourselves as to whether their course of action has tended in the direction of developing the qualities which constitute the real man, the being made in the image of his Creator, fitted for becoming master of nature and an example worthy to be followed by those around him; or those alone which he holds in common with the beasts of the field, and which fit him for place among men whose rule of conduct exhibits itself in the robber chieftain"s motto, "that they may take who have the power, and those may keep who can" That it is proposed now to do; but preparatory thereto, the author asks the reader"s attention to a brief exhibit of the very gradual steps by which, and almost insensibly, he has been led to arrive at the idea of an unity of law, necessary complement as it is of that great idea so recently developed, but already so universally accepted, that of Unity Of Force.
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