They are governing beliefs, concepts, needs, aspirations, which are to the accumulable products what form is to matter. Law means a system of principles, not a mass of rulings or statutes. The art of an epoch means a group of harmonious reigning ideals, not the accumulation of poems and paintings. Grammar is the whole of language. Theory is the whole of science, and dogma of religion.
Government is but a political idea.
Morality is the sum of industry, for industry amounts to neither more nor less than its end. The ideal is surely the all of art. Only it is much easier to move forward in the direction of possible acquisitions and endowments than in that of necessary substitutions and sacrifices. Multitudes of astronomical observations finally make the geocentric theory untenable and the heliocentric theory alone tenable. The minute study of sources regarding an epoch in church history undermines at last the illegitimate ecclesiasticalpretensions based on the forged Donation of Constantine, or the spurious Isidorean Decretals.