"MAN-MADE LAWS"
i Sir,—ln the mass of correspondence that fills columns of our papers and interests thousands of people, one often comes across the expression "man-made laws'," and even finds correspondents blaming some of our social troubles upon them, i cannot make head or tail of this expression, which appears to me to he meaningless. All the laws we have, ! or can have, are man-made. Even those I for which a divine sanction is claimed, come to us through a human channel, ! and were affected by that passage. Can ! any writer who uses the expression tell ! us what meaning, if any, is attached i to it. I do not mean just the verbal meaning, which is plain enough, but the sinister meaning, what it is, and w hy. A. Warbcrton. Ngaruawahia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 12
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