But then there is no such mind anywhere, or at least not much; and therefore we must choose law and order, which are second best.

These look at things as they exist for the most part only, and are unable to survey the whole of them.

And therefore I have spoken as I have.
And now we will determine what penalty he ought to pay or suffer who has hurt or wounded another.

Any one may easily imagine the questions which have to be asked in all such cases: What did he wound, or whom, or how, or when?
for there are innumerable particulars of this sort which greatly vary from one another.

And to allow courts of law to determine all these things, or not to determine any of them, is alike impossible.
There is one particular which they must determine in all cases--the question of fact.