- The laws of nature, as analyzed mathematically and descriptively   
   by Ptolemy and Galen, bore an interesting, and perhaps not   
   entirely accidental similarity to the law of nations and of   
   nature, as discerned by a long succession of Roman jurists. ...The   
   concept of an objective law applicable to human affairs, yet   
   operating in accord with Nature and Reason and apart both from   
   divine revelation and from human whim or passion, was peculiar to   
   Rome and societies descended from Rome.   
      
   William H. McNeill: 1917-2016   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)