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In his presidential address to the members of the Law Society, in congress at Plymouth, on October 2nd, Mr. R. W. Dibdin dealt mainly with the modern attitude towards the law. If law wns that social agreement between neighbours and members of the same State on which public order and happiness depended it could not be denied, he said, that in kind was to-day in "no very secure pasi tion: What was perhaps worse, never perhaps before had law stood so low in public estimation. There might be vari ous reasons for this, but the principal one was that whereas in all different forms of the early community the concept of law involved the idea of something funda mental that must not be altered or even challenged, that must be respected in all the changes froin noble to popular govern tuent and risa rermi, now the whole con ception had Been altered, and law had become to a great extent a mattér not. of principle but of oxpediency. There was no sacrosanet hackground, and with the elimination of religion the whole basis of society had become precarious, and in- determinate. ·

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SANCTITY OF LIFE AND MARRIAGE, Let them ask themselves what was the world's view generally on two of the great fundamental questions reverence for marriage and for human life. It was idle to pretend that public opinion on these subjects was not undergoing gradual

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acts which brought their own penalty, like intemperance, or acts which públic feel ing and religious sanction had already condemned. The legislator should not waste his time in combating evils which he was in the end.powerless to stop; he should leave their uprooting to custom and habit, to the national religion and its ministers, who, unurmed by any netual force, coulil, therefore, the more readily convince their hearers on matters of right and wrong. It seemed clear to-day that the venerable position held by law could only be retained if it ceased to meddle la the legitimate domain of private free dom and to further extreme measures of social reform.". It behoved the defenders of law as a public blessing, as the art of right living binding on all citizens alike, not to minimise these dangers, to utter no platitudes about human progress and human brotherhood, but to endeavour to

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mainly from people of education and cul- ture, and the principle of contempt hid happily not yet reached the poor. Al- though they often disregarded current rules about matrimony they bad never ccased to respect those who kept them. Let the gallery of any melodrama be wit ness to this. But for many of the chile marriage, once a divine ordinance made in heaven, had even ceased to be a civil The Corporation undertakes General Banking institution it was to be a matter of and Exchange Business of every description and purely private taste and convenience. In

In addition to its Branches has Agencies in al no civilised community could this sheer the principal Cities of the world. individualism win the day Unless we returned to the horde or pack promised by Communism there must be rules for civil wedlock, for legitimacy, and for in- beritance. Yet the traditional sanctities were plainly decaying. In lieu of sheep- like convention men and women, prided themselves now upon selfish eccentricity. Modern fiction was admittedly to a con siderable extent one huge commentary on the problems and scandals of domestic life and the inevitable triangle; and what used to be considered as merely decent and respectable was now slightingly re- ferred to as " early Victorian,”.

As for human life, in modern times the tendency was to cheapen its value. The extremist so-called reforms were to great extent based on a ruthless system of thinning out. The chief victims of the French Revolution came from the pro- letariat, Lenin, in the Cheka oficial mas Ancres of over a million and halk you the peasant class, believed in the time neccssity it Communism was to be made a success. Only a few weeks ago we were informed. is a report submitted to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association by a special committee deal- ing with law enforcement that since 1910 85,000 Americans had lost their lives from being poisoned, shot, or stabbed, or from otherwise unlawful injuries. It was esti- mated that during last year there were

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