James Beck: “The spirit of man had a new birth and was breaking away from the too rigid bonds of ancient custom and authority.”

It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.

The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.

Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.

That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.