The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
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By DE. FRANK CRANE

THERE is a tradition that certain leg :
 islator, once upon a. time, came up to = Albany from country district, and be- ing man of impatient holiness; and being disgusted with hearing so much about the horrid crime of bigamy, he determined to end the matter once for all, and to this end intros duced the following resolution: 't
 Be it resolved, that the crime of bigamy is hereby abolished" ss :.
 This brother was merely one bright and shining example of large class of childlikes souls who fancy that the condition ot society e depends upon legislation. They assume asE matter of course that if we could only get the j, right laws passed we could do away with the : social evil drunkenness and .pinocle, also 2 trusts and confidence games. " '
 We therefore invite alIs enthusiasts to sit while in the primary. class while we discuss law. .x M .,5
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 The meaning of this is .thatasLaw aiss not made by men; itgis something that7lgyewsss among men. All the legislatures can do IS to indicate the progress of Law They canss not in a strict sense, make" Law. s-ss. 'sf
 It is "a power not of Ourselves" q some thing back of us, that makes Law. Law is the sense of relation between human beings, It grows. And sometimes seems to grow very slowly. e. rc. c.,p3~
 But you can't hurry nor retard it. Ifyou : "pass"ta statute that has not yet grown ripe among the people, it is a dead letter. 70 < IT
 Just as you could not make a law in adr z vance of the real unseen Law, so you could not have a statute that lags behind. You could not, for example, carry out law. to punish heresy, to hang man for petty lar ceny, nor to imprison a man for kissing bis wife, At one time these were perfectly good laws; now we are past them. .51. .s,a Law is one of the sciences, as botany,iO or geology Law is discovered, gravitatien was discovered. Just as the astronomer doesi not make the laws that govern the planets. but only finds them out, so the true lawmaker : simply ascertains what are the great realities of human relationships, and has nothing to do with manufacturing them. yr7 a, .-,
 The laws of society are inherent in so-g ciety, as the laws of health are in the body T. and it is not the lawmakers resolutions any more than the physicians pills that cnree.s '
 Truly apprehended, Law is seen to be not '1awless science," as the poet terms 1t,
 "That codeless myriad of precedent,
 That wilderness of single instances" but is rather the natural science of human 7. intercourse, by which justice has slowly widened down from precedent to precedent" 7
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 The Ten Commandments existed long be- fore Moses wrote them The Magma Chafta had to be born and matured in the breasts of men before its signing could have significance.
 Councils and senates may decree this or , that Their utterances stand or fall accord ing as they tally with the Unseen Law in mems minds. The statute may be passed By unanimous vote today, and may flourish to- morrow, but unless the Lawmaker, Evol1-'1 tion, has underwritten it, the next day 1t will be moribund, and dead the day after > Senates change. Statutes esvary. Codes :. come and go. But Law moves on with ma jestic tread, keeping step to the deliberate purpose of Omnipotence.
 If we would but learn this it would save us much useless striving. Trusts were not made by statutes and cannot be unmade by them; they indicate a state of business growth; all our lawmakers can do is to sub init them to terms of justice. The labor prob lem is no problem at all, it is n growth, it must be lived out, and all we canado is to be just fair and humane. Also the drink evil, the social evil, and all criminal conditions ale states of social ungrowth or disease; laws cannot heal them; the people must be cured of them.
 All this does not argue the policy of doing nothing. It points the way to do the right thing. You cannot push the world by legs .ature laws. The only way is through the school house.
 (Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his statureg
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