Laws are not masters, but servants, and he

50 rules them who obeys them. Ward Beecher. Laws are not our life, only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house; all whose e ential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature. Carlyle.