Then these two excellent old men pursued their sententious discussion:
First judge. The law is stable.
Second judge. The law is never fixed.
First judge. Coming forth from God it is immutable.
Serond judge. Proceeding naturally from society it is dependent upon the changing conditions of this life.
First judge. It is the will of God, which changeth not.
Second judge. It is the will of man which changeth ever.
First judge. It was before man and is superior to him.
Second judge. It is of man, infirm as he, and like unto him capable of perfection.
First judge. Judge, open thy book and read what is written therein. For it is God who dictated to such as believed in Him: Sic locutus est patribus nostris, Abraham et semini ejus in sæcula.
Second judge. That which is written by the dead will be erased by the living. Were it not so, the will of those who have passed away would impose itself upon those who yet survive; and the dead would be the living and the living the dead.
