[The Common Law by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Common Law CHAPTER XVI 17/40
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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