Re: Teen scared, awaiting transfer to state prison
Michael Yardley
established itself so strongly, so gently, whilst so contrary to nature. 2.
The sanctity, the dignity, and the humility of a Christian soul. 3. The
miracles of Holy Scripture. 4. Jesus Christ in particular. 5. The apostles
in particular. 6. Moses and the prophets in particular. 7. The Jewish
people. 8. The prophecies. 9. Perpetuity; no religion has perpetuity. 10.
The doctrine which gives a reason for everything. 11. The sanctity of this
law. 12. By the course of the world.
Surely, after considering what is life and what is religion, we should not
refuse to obey the inclination to follow it, if it comes into our heart; and
it is certain that there is no ground for laughing at those who follow it.
290. Proofs of religion.--Morality, doctrine, miracles, prophecies, types.
SECTION V: JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
291. In the letter On Injustice can come the ridiculousness of the law that
the elder gets all. "My friend, you were born on this side of the mountain,
it is therefore just that your elder brother gets everything."
"Why do you kill me"?
292. He lives on the other side of the water.
293. "Why do you kill me? What! do you not live on the other side of the
water? If you lived on this side, my friend, I should be an assassin, and it
would be unjust to slay you in this manner. But since you live on the other
side, I am a hero, and it is just."
294. On what shall man found the order of the world which he would govern?
Shall it be on the caprice of each individual? What confusion! Shall it be
on justice? Man is ignorant of it.
Certainly, had he known it, he would not have established this maxim, the
most general of all that obtain among men, that each should follow the
custom of his own country. The glory of true equity