The Gradual Triumph of Law Over Brute Force a Historic Retrospect
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Hallam designates him, Louis IX. , usually called and if ever mortal prince merited the title, justly called Saint Louis. His was, indeed, an eminently beautiful character, which meets one amidst the dreary waste of that half-savage time with a pleasant surprise, such as the traveller feels when he comes upon some green spot in a wilder- ness of rocks and sand. His Christian conscience was shocked alike by the folly and the brutality of the judicial combat, and he determined to do what in him l...ay to bring it to an end. * But it is a * " The judicial duel and private wars were, not, in his view, consistent with a regular and Christian society ; they were manifestly relics of the ancient barbarism, of that state of individual independence and warfare which has been so habitually designated the state of nature. Now, the reason and the virtue of St. Louis both revolted against this con- B 2 12 striking proof of the inveteracy with which the evil was imbedded in the habits of that age, that he durst do no more than abolish it in his own domains.
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Hallam designates him, Louis IX. , usually called and if ever mortal prince merited the title, justly called Saint Louis. His was, indeed, an eminently beautiful character, which meets one amidst the dreary waste of that half-savage time with a pleasant surprise, such as the traveller feels when he comes upon some green spot in a wilder- ness of rocks and sand. His Christian conscience was shocked alike by the folly and the brutality of the judicial combat, and he determined to do what in him l...ay to bring it to an end. * But it is a * " The judicial duel and private wars were, not, in his view, consistent with a regular and Christian society ; they were manifestly relics of the ancient barbarism, of that state of individual independence and warfare which has been so habitually designated the state of nature. Now, the reason and the virtue of St. Louis both revolted against this con- B 2 12 striking proof of the inveteracy with which the evil was imbedded in the habits of that age, that he durst do no more than abolish it in his own domains.
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