Necessity Of Human Governments

Moral suasion, wiihout ihe aid of prohibitory law, it is not sufllcient t restrain all men froni rice. TLere are vnrifius reasons why it is so - two of the principal o I which we will notice. Fir3t, olí men are not sufficiemly enlightened to see and feel tbe forcé of moral principie, and therefore cnnnot be controlled by moral suoaion. Sccondly, all men are not honeat, and ther' fjre disregard thc voice of moral principie, and resist the influenco of moral Buasion. Toking the world as we find it, these two eonsiderationa show, most clearly, the necessity of prohibitory (aw to restrain men iirom vice. But it a oiten objected lo this view, that noihing is gained, ín a moral point ofview. by resiraining men froi vice by thc forcé of law, nasmuch a.3 it does no reform ihe dispiisition oí" the heart. To lilis ■nay be replied, that threc important advanlagc may be gained by prohibitory luw, admiiting tha t has no direct tendeney :o mako the hesrt be ter. First, it mny prevent tbe formmion of invete rato habita of vice, by which ihe individual i kep1 witlijn tüo ir.fluence of moral suasion. Socondly, it will prevent all the individual anc personal evüs which would follow the commis 8ion of crimes thus resirained by law. Thirdly, the influence of bod example ispre vci.ed, when men are restrained from vice by