[44] Utopia. By Sir Thomas More.
[45] A sort of divan, not unusual in the East at the present day. The sultan, when receiving a visit of ceremony, sits on a sort of sofa or post-bed. Traces of it were also found in the “palaces” of Ashantec.
[46] “The new spirit made its appearance in the world about the XVIth century. Its end is to substitute a new society for that of the Middle Ages. Hence the necessity that the first modern revolution should be a religious one.… It was Germany and Luther that produced it.”—Cousin, Cours d’hist. de la philos., p. 7, Paris, 1841.
[47] “Non a prætoris edicto, ut plerique nunc, neque a duo decim Tabulis, ut superiores, sed penitus ex intima philosophia haurienda est juris disciplina.”—Cic., De legib. lib. i.
[48] Cic., de fin. bon. et malor. i. 11.
[49] Plato, Des lois, liv. i.
[50] “Illud stultissimum (est), existimare omnia justa esse, quæ scripta sint in populorum institutis et legibus.”—De legibus.
[51] “Neque opinione sed natura constitutum esse jus.”—Ibid.
[52] “Sæculis omnibus ante nata est, (ante) quam scripta lex ulla, aut quam omnino civitas constituta.”—Ibid.
[53] “Quidam corum quædam magna, quantum divinitus adjuti sunt, invenerunt.”—S. Aug., Civit. Dei, i. ii. c. 7.