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140 bells at the bridle; but, for the captivity of age, you must forge the iron fetter, and cast the passing bell.

113. Since no law can be, in a final or true sense, established, but by right, (all unjust laws involving the ultimate necessity of their own abrogation), the law-giving can only become a law-sustaining power in so far as it is Royal, or "right doing;"—in so far, that is, as it rules, not mis-rules, and orders, not dis-orders, the things submitted to it. Throned on this rock of justice, the kingly power becomes established and establishing; "greek missing}}," or divine, and, therefore, it is literally true that no ruler can err, so long as he is a ruler, or ; perverted by careless thought, which has cost the world somewhat, into—" the king can do no wrong."

114. B., or that of the tenure of property, first determines what every individual possesses by right, and secures it to him; and what he possesses by wrong,