“Law drives out manners”
Sir, — Your thoughtful leading article “Law drives out manners” (August 27) would have won supportive comment from Edmund Burke, who in 1796 (in “Letters on a Regicide Peace”) wrote: “Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or
soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.” — Yours, etc. HAROLD EVANS. August 27, 1984.
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