[109]
Further, you have also heard the statutes with which the defendant's law is
manifestly at variance; and you are aware that he has introduced it without
repeal of those statutes. And you have certainly heard that the law is
detrimental, for I have only just left off telling you so. Therefore he is
unquestionably guilty on every count, and in nothing has he shown consideration
or scruple; but, as it seems to me, if anything else had been forbidden by the
existing statutes, he would have done that as well.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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