Article November 20, 1926 Issue

True Law

CLARE DUNN

From early childhood the sons of men are taught to believe in, and give power and authority to, many conditions over which they have little or no control, and which they believe can injure or help them. Often these conditions are given the importance and dignity of laws, and are regarded as more or less fixed and certain.

Thus, there are the so-called laws of heredity, which decree that a child must resemble his parents and forebears, not only in appearnace, but even in physical disabilities and faults of disposition and character. There are the so-called laws of nature and of health also, which children are taught they must obey, or suffer in consequence—laws of hygiene, decreeing that certain bodily exercise, air, food, and so forth, are necessary to physical well-being, even at times to life itself; laws of disease, that certain maladies must grow worse before they can be cured, and that certain diseases can never be cured. In the realm of business and finance, likewise, there are the so-called laws of supply and demand, claiming that under certain conditions lack must prevail, and that under others there may be plenty. And so men obey, to a greater or less degree, willingly or unwillingly, consciously or unconsciously, these so-called laws, which they believe have power to enforce their demands.

But because we all yearn and hope for peace, joy, harmony, and plenty, and because of the injustice, cruelty, and tyranny of these so-called laws, their oft-repeated failures and contradictory nature, and the suffering, discord, want, and woe which come upon us as a result of placing reliance on them, there comes a time when we begin to distrust them, and to doubt and question their assumed authority. And at last we hope that, after all, they may not be real laws. Then we begin to search and seek with all our hearts for true law, for law that we can prove to be invariably good in its effects.

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