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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in strategy and the maneuvering of large bodies of troops.
They make the laws as they are needed; a new law for
each emergency. They are unfettered by precedent in
the administration of justice. Customs have been handed
down by ages of repetition, but the punishment for ignoring
a custom is a matter for individual treatment by a jury of
the culprit's peers, and I may say that justice seldom
misses fire, but seems rather to rule in inverse ratio to
the ascendency of law. In one respect at least the Martians
are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
I did not see the prisoner again for several days subsequent
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