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Lysander Spooner: There would be substantially the same reason in enacting mathematics by statute, that there is in enacting natural law.

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There would be substantially the same reason in enacting mathematics by statute, that there is in enacting natural law.
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Lysander Spooner

Editor's note · Context

He compares the enactment of laws to the absurdity of legislating mathematics.

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