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constant structure of societies is to destroy other conceptions which are less exact and even false, and which are in themselves, by their obstructive force, an obstacle to reforms ; such, for exam- ple, is the conception that the social order is immutable and that human intervention is impotent to modify the same, or else the inverse conception, that there are no other social laws, no other social order, than those imposed by the legislator.

G. DE GREEF. BRUSSELS.

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