And some day that boy is going to grow so big you won't be able to make the old ones do and he'll have to get a new pair.

If he's living on a farm he'll want the same kind of good working pants, but for all that they'll have to be new made." Stanton laughed with some irritation "I hate arguing in parables, for in the nature of things they can't be exact.

That's a mistake you westerners make.

The law must change in detail with changing conditions, but its principles cannot alter, and the respect for these principles is our only safeguard against relapse into savagery.

Take slavery.