Mistakes of Ingersoll On Thomas Paine As Shown By Ep Goodwin Dd Wm M Bl
Mistakes of Ingersoll On Thomas Paine As Shown By Ep Goodwin Dd Wm M Bl
J B James Baird Mcclure
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It matters little to me that I am governed by one man or millions of men. As a man I owe obedience direct only to reason and 110 MISTAKES OF INOERSOLL. divine justice, indirectly to the social agent established in;' the name of this reason and of this justice. In a tradi- tionally monarchial society this agent is the prince, and I acknowledge the monarch. But, I repeat, behind and above the monarch I bow only to divine order and supreme law, whose agent he, the king or the emperor, is held to b...e. In a democratic society it is the people — I should say the majority of the people, since we must be arraigned before that law of numbers which is becoming the consti- tuted agent of justice and law. I accept willingly the majority of the people; but that majority can claim my allegiance only so long as it shall represent the principle of a higher order, the principle of absolute justice — God. Thus, in the social as well as in the moral and intellectual order, it is every man arraigned before his fellow-man.
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