To carry the matter further, we may observe that it is impossible for men so much as to murder each other without statutes and maxims and an idea of justice and honour. War has its laws as well as peace, and even that sportive kind of war carried on among wrestlers, boxers, cudgel-players, gladiators, is regulated by fixed principles. Common interest and utility beget infallibly a standard of right and wrong among the parties concerned.
NOTE, OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.
[117] That the lighter machine yields to the heavier, and in machines of the same kind, that the empty yields to the loaded—this rule is founded on convenience. That those who are going to the capital take place of those who are coming from it—this seems to be founded on some idea of the dignity of the great city, and of the preference of the future to the past. From like reasons, among foot-walkers, the right-hand entitles a man to the wall and prevents jostling, which peaceable people find very disagreeable and inconvenient.
ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME.
ÆMILIUS, PAULUS, Roman general, B.C. 230–157. Defeated Perseus of Macedonia.
AGATHOCLES, tyrant of Syracuse, born circa B.C. 361, died 289.
ALCIBIADES, Athenian general and statesman, born B.C. 450, died B.C. 404. A disciple of Socrates, and noted for dissoluteness.
ALEXANDER the Great, born B.C. 356, died 323.
ANACHARSIS, Scythian philosopher, B.C. 600. Much esteemed by Solon.
ANTHONY, MARK, Triumvir, born circa B.C. 85, died B.C. 30. Best known through his association with Cleopatra.