Upon the narrow basis of legal history it is, of course, impossible to protect them.
History is rather the record of the thwarting of human desire than of its achievement.

But upon the value of certain things there is a sufficient and constant opinion to give us assurance that repression will ultimately involve disorder.

Nor is there any difference between the classes of men in this regard.

Forms, indeed, will vary; and the power we have of answering demand will always wait upon the discoveries of science.

Our natural rights, that is to say, will have a changing content simply because this is not a static world.