The clue to all the perplexities of law and custom lies in this, that human association is an artificiality. We do not run together naturally and easily as grazing deer do or feeding starlings or a shoal of fish. We are a sort of creature which is only resuming association after a long heredity of extreme separation. We are beings strongly individualized, we are dominated by that passion which is no more and no less than individuality in action,—. Jealousy is a fierce on ourselves, an intolerance of our fellow-creatures, ranging between an insatiable as its buoyant phase and a when it is touched by fear. In our expansive moments we want to dominate and control everyone and destroy every unlikeness to ourselves; in our phases our homes are our castles and we want to be let alone.  
Now all law, all social order, all custom, is a patch-up and a to this separating passion of self-insistence. It is an of conflict and social death. Human society is as yet only a and not an alliance.
 
When you understand that, you will begin to understand a thousand perplexing things in legislation and social life. You will und............