Excerpt from Politician, Party, and People: Addresses Delivered in the Page Lecture Series, 1912, Before the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University I recall a classmate of mine who was hope lessly dazed by the requirement of his professor that he should write an essay on the ultimate seat of moral authority. After I had tried to explain to him what he was expected to do, he said helplessly, I don't see where the problem comes in. I always thought God made the laws and it was for us to obey them. This solution of the question would be as satisfactory as it is simple if the laws to which he referred were really written on tablets of bronze and specifically covered all the details of a man's public or business activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.