Under anarchy progress was at an end.

The individual must give up something of his rights to the state and the community.
He gave up a certain amount of liberty, but received therefor an equivalent in protection.

The law was, therefore, no oppressor, no monster, no usurer, no austere being, reaping where it had not sown.
The law was nothing to be dreaded, nothing to be feared; and, upon the other hand, it was nothing to be scorned.
There must be a beginning, continued Dan Anderson.

There must be something established.

The pound measure was one pound, the same all over the country; a yard measure was a yard, and there was no guesswork about it.