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Dec. 7, 2001
Benefits of a Lawful World
There is a scene in the play "A Man For All Seasons" where playwright Robert Bolt has Sir Thomas More respond to his son-in-law's comments that he would cut down every law in England to get at the Devil. "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
By Scott Astle
There is a scene in the play "A Man For All Seasons" where playwright Robert Bolt has Sir Thomas More respond to his son-in-law's comments that he would cut down every law in England to get at the Devil. "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you - where would you hide, ...
There is a scene in the play "A Man For All Seasons" where playwright Robert Bolt has Sir Thomas More respond to his son-in-law's comments that he would cut down every law in England to get at the Devil. "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you - where would you hide, ...
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