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SEVENTH PRINCIPLE--EQUALITY OF MEN
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`The Laws of God are not imposition of will, or
of power, or pleasure, but the resolutions of
truth, reason and justice.'
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All men are equal before the law, which must reign
absolutely.
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The object of punishment is not vengeance, but the
prevention of crime.
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Kings must rule with wisdom and justice; prince,
peer and peasant alike have equal rights to just treatment,
there must be no favour shown to individuals. A
judge must be no `respecter of persons', but administer
the law with strict impartiality in every case brought
before him.
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If a person commit a crime against you, you have
not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish
him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime
by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant
beside the general welfare of the people.
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When perfect justice reigns in every country of the
Eastern and Western World, then will the earth become
a place of beauty. The dignity and equality of
every servant of God will be acknowledged; the ideal
of the solidarity of the human race, the true brotherhood
of man, will be realized; and the glorious light
of the Sun of Truth will illumine the souls of all men.
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