“Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeanteloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small inthe indefatigable learned mouth, cannot make the unjust just. The grandquestion still remains, Was the judgment just? If unjust, it will not andcannot get harbour for itself, or continue to have footing in thisUniverse, which was made by other than One Unjust. Enforce it by neversuch statuting, three readings, royal assents; blow it to the four windswith all manner of quilted trumpeters and pursuivants, in the rear of themnever so many gibbets and hangmen, it will not stand, it cannot stand.From all souls of men, from all ends of Nature, from the Throne of Godabove, there are voices bidding it: Away! Away!”

Past and Present.