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“Do you know what is meant by ‘unwritten laws,’ Hippias?”“Yes, those that are uniformly observed in every country.”“Could you say that men made them?”“Nay, how could that be, seeing that they cannot all meet together and do not speak the same language?”“Then by whom have these laws been made, do you suppose?”“I think that the gods made these laws for men. For among all men the first law is to fear the gods.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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