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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism406
by others better adapted to the new wants of the race. Corrupt laws are
sometimes introduced by designing and unscrupulous persons, aided by
immoral legislators—corrupt and ignorant judges often misinterpret the
laws—mistakes are often made in making, interpreting and enforcing the
laws. This because men and the human law is fallible, and not absolute.
But take the general average, the laws of a people, both in their making,
interpretation, and administration, represent the highest average of which
that people is capable. When the people, or the average of them, outgrow
a law, they do away with it—when the average of the race demand a new
law, they get it, sooner or later. Reforms in law move slowly, but they come at
last, and they are not so very much behind the average intelligences of the
people. Of course, such part of the people as have risen above the average,
see the human law as very faulty, and often very unjust, from their point of
view, just as do those below the average, from an entirely different reason—
to the first the law at any stage of the race is imperfect because it is behind
the requirements of justice and the needs of the race, while to the second
class it is imperfect because it is in advance of their ethical conception. But,
on the whole, the laws of a people fairly represent the needs, ideas, and
intelligence of the average man composing that race. When that average
man grows, the laws are changed to fit him—that is, he causes the laws to be
changed, for he recognizes their imperfection. Some thinkers have thought
that the ideal condition of affairs would be “an absolute monarchy, with an
angel upon the throne;” while another set of thinkers picture a community
so highly advanced in intelligence and spirituality that human laws would
be thrown aside as an impertinence, because such a people would need no
laws, for every man would be a law unto himself, and being ideal individuals,
ideal justice would reign. Both conditions above mentioned presuppose
“perfection,” either upon the part of the ruler or the people. The laws of
a country are really desired or permitted by the average opinion of the
people of that country—this is true of autocratic Russia as well as of socalled
democratic countries, for the real will of the people makes itself