Proceeding to deeper and less recognized causes, some would attribute this spirit of lawlessness to the rampant individualism, which began in the eighteenth century, and which has steadily and naturally grown with the advance of democratic institutions.
Beck attributes the rise of lawlessness to the individualism that emerged with democratic ideals in the 18th century.
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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
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.
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.
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