Prelim. Sec. 6.

[5] "Est quidem vera lex, recta ratio, _naturae congruens_, diffusa in
omnes, constans, sempiterna, quae vocet ad officium jubendo, vetando a
fraude deterreat, quae tamen neque probos frustra jubet aut vetat, neque
improbos jubendo aut vetando movet. Huic legi neque obrogari fas est,
neque derogari ex hac aliquid licet, neque tota abrogari potest. Nec
vero aut per senatum aut per populum solvi hac lege possumus. Neque est
quaerendus explanator aut interpres ejus alius. Nec erit alia lex Romae,
alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni
tempore una lex et sempiterna, et immortalis continebit, unusque erit
communis quasi magister et imperator omnium Deus. Ille legis hujus
inventor, disceptator, lator, cui qui non parebit _ipse se fugiet et
naturam hominis aspernabitur_, atque hoc ipso luet maximas poenas
etiamsi caetera supplicia quae putantur effugerit."--_Fragm._ lib. iii.
_Cicer. de Republ. apud Lactant_.

It is impossible to read such precious fragments without deploring the
loss of a work which, for the benefit of all generations, _should_ have
been immortal.

[6] "Age vero urbibus constitutis ut fidem colere et justitiam retinere
discerent et aliis parere sua voluntate consuescerent, ac non modo
labores excipiendos communis commodi causa sed etiam vitam amittendam
existimarent; qui tandem fieri potuit nisi homines ea quae ratione
invenissent eloquentia persuadere potuissent."--_Cic. de Inv. Rhet._
lib. i. in proem.

[7] [Greek: Dichaiomata tot polimot.]

[8] Cujacius, Brissonius, Hottomannus, &c. &c.--Vide _Gravina Orig. Jur.
Civil._ pp. 132-38. edit. Lips. 1737.

Leibnitz; a great mathematician as well as philosopher, declares that he
knows nothing which approaches so near to the method and precision of
geometry as the Roman law.--_Op._ tom. iv. p. 254.

[9] Proavia juris civilis.--_De Jur. Bell. ac Pac. Proleg._ Sec. 16.

[10] Dr. Paley, Princ. of Mor. and Polit. Philos. Pref. pp. xiv. and xv.

[11] Grot. Jur. Bell. et Pac. Proleg. Sec. 40.

[12] I do not mean to impeach the soundness of any part of Puffendorff's
reasoning founded on moral entities. It may be explained in a manner
consistent with the most just philosophy. He used, as every writer must
do, the scientific language of his own time. I only assert that, to
those who are unacquainted with ancient systems, his philosophical
vocabulary is obsolete and unintelligible.

[13] I cannot prevail on myself t