The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-09-30

''rule of conduct" for individuals in
common laid down by supreme
power" power able to enforce it's
will Lastly that it be established in
general sense over the union formed,
the social life. Man, then, in his saw
age state, was not subjected to law;
acknowledged no law superior to that
of nature working in and through him
low in an aggressive or defensive union,
then law is generated within its true
meaning since some one member of the
union will obtain authority, construct
rule, governing the conduct of the
individual members of the union; COM
mand obedience thereto, and establish
obedience to it over the entire field of
its operation, each component part of
the principal idea is necessary and nat
ural, since the union formed becomes
active, and to control and direct its
actions, it's parts must be firmly gov
erned, thoroughly organized, and will
ing to harmonic to gain greater resist
ance to disintegrating influences, added
energy in time of need. Hence, Organi-
zation, whatever the active influence,
is benefit to man and an aid to his
rising power; and when applied through
law increases his personal strength to-
ward the prevention of those destruct-
i've causes which spring forward in all
times and among all people, to dis
member the social life. But, however
strong organization may make the in
dividual it has not yet succeeded in
enabling him to dispense with the Or
ganizers. Heads formed the organiza-
tion, and, so far, seem necessary to
maintain and direct it. Right there
lies the key to the progress of law.
Having organized into groups contain
ing but few individuals the laws
were not apt to be very severe, espe-
cially since the ruling authority, was
in daily contact with those over whom
he held sway. But when the tribe was
formed, with it's chief and council,
measures were drawn together, and so
the farther removed from the masses
the author of laws is placed, the more
of them, and their greater severity.
Whatever the conditions, however, the
claws of might" in the savage become
the laws prompted by diplomacy in the
king.
In the background, however, kingly
DEGREES, though primarily prompted by
diplomacy, have for their direct en-
forcement, the army, the medium of
force. When the households united
the housefather was advanced to
chief of a tribe, thus heads of other
groups forming the tribe became the
advisors, the council; through them,
the edicts of the chief were applied,
modified, or became more elastic.
These edicts were necessarily of
broad and general scope in the early
formative period, and we find as the
tribe grows larger, conditions become
more complex, new laws are required
to govern the differing conditions; and
as the social life becomes continually
more diversified, law must necessarily
grow from the simple decree to the
more complex and statutory form.
This diversity of conditions continue
to grow from its inception until, by
force of the general conditions pro-
duced in the social life, the people
either revolt from their severity, or the
diplomacy of the ruling class abrogates
in measure continuous grind. For
the king, or the aristocracy under him
recognize that the pressure must not
be continuously employed if they would
retain their sovereignty. Diplomacy
also prompts the playing of the one
class against the other; and so in
ancient life we find the kingly favor
bestowed, first on this one, now on
that. By so doing the majority of the
subject class may be led over path, be
willing to follow when otherwise they
would soon be in open revolt. 1t is this
fact which presents to us that anoma-
| lOus condition so prevalent in ancient