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With regard to the Anglo-Irish, and even such of the natives as had consented to accept titles from the English kings, those titles, some of which went back as far as Strongbow's invasion, were brought under the "inquiry" of the new commission with what result may be imagined. An astute legist can discover flaws in the best-drawn legal papers.

But if the President will declare that he will enforce the closing of the ports with the whole navy, so as to strictly guard and close the maritime league, then the foreign powers will see that the administration does not intend to humbug them, but that he, the President, will only preserve intact the fullest exercise of sovereignty, and, as said the Roman legist, he, the President, "nil sibi postulat quod non aliis tribuit."

Thus we have, on the one hand, isolation, inequality, enmity, war, robbery, murder; on the other, society, equality, fraternity, peace, and love. Choose between them! M. Joseph Dutens a physician, engineer, and geometrician, but a very poor legist, and no philosopher at all is the author of a "Philosophy of Political Economy," in which he felt it his duty to break lances in behalf of property.

Plautus, who makes the old slave Syra ask why there is not the same law in this respect for the husband as for the wife, had preceded the legist Ulpian who wrote: "It seems to be very unjust that a man demands chastity of his wife while he himself shows no example of it."