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The Millions Of Laws Which Exist For The Regulation Of Humanity Appear Upon Investigation To Be Divided Into Three Principal Categories: Protection Of Property, Protection Of Persons, Protection Of Government. And By Analyzing Each Of These Three Categories, We Arrive At The Same Logical And Necessary Conclusion: The Uselessness And Hurtfulness Of Law.

Waste Of Time Is The Leading Feature Of Our Present Education. Not Only Are We Taught A Mass Of Rubbish, But What Is Not Rubbish Is Taught So As To Make Us Waste Over It As Much Time As Possible.

The Confused Mass Of Rules Of Conduct Called Law, Which Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Slavery, Serfdom, Feudalism, And Royalty, Has Taken The Place Of Those Stone Monsters, Before Whom Human Victims Used To Be Immolated, And Whom Slavish Savages Dared Not Even Touch Lest They Should Be Slain By The Thunderbolts Of Heaven.

The Whole Aspect Of The Universe Changes With This New Conception. The Idea Of Force Governing The World, Of Pre-established Law, Preconceived Harmony, Disappears To Make Room For The Harmony That Fourier Had Caught A Glimpse Of: The One Which Results From The Disorderly And Incoherent Movements Of Numberless Hosts Of Matter, Each Of Which Goes Its Own Way And All Of Which Hold Each Other In Equilibrium.

Each Individual Is A Cosmos Of Organs, Each Organ Is A Cosmos Of Cells, Each Cell Is A Cosmos Of Infinitely Small Ones; And In This Complex World, The Well-being Of The Whole Depends Entirely On The Sum Of Well-being Enjoyed By Each Of The Least Microscopic Particles Of Organized Matter. A Whole Revolution Is Thus Produced In The Philosophy Of Life.