Overlevering en traditie
It is the dead who govern.
Look you, man, how they work their will upon us!
Who have made the laws? The dead!
Who have made the customs that we obey and that form and shape our lives? The dead!
And the titles to our lands? Have not the dead devised them?
If a surveyor runs a line he begins at some corner the dead set up; and if one goes to law upon a question the judge looks backwards through his books until he finds how the dead have settled it - and he follows that.
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