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men. It is, however, needful to remark that this group includes the studies connected with other laws than three. Legal practitioners are often heard to deny that International Law is law, because it is not enforced by a sheriff's posse. But there are other modes of enforcement of rules which though less mechanically perfect, perhaps, are in some cases far more conducive to the purposes of those rules. Indeed, it is not at all a sheriff's posse or brute force that is the fundamental support of any effectual law, but the public sense of right and wrong. The brute force is nothing but an instrument, though a quite essential one. But there are other forms of brute force than a sheriff's posse. When a man detected at cheating in play is cut in the street by his acquaintances, that is brute force,—far more rigorous than telling him out and hanging him. We must therefore include among the sciences of this group, the study of the Code of Honour

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