Heinrich Rommen

 

As I was recently paging through my copy of Heinrich Rommen’s The Natural Law, I came across this passage of his:

 

When little or no respect any longer exists for any authority; when marriage generally ceases to be differentiated from concubinage and promiscuity; when the honor of one’s fellow citizen is no longer respected and oaths no longer have force, then the possibility of social living, of order in human affairs, vanishes together.

 

Although his thoughts were penned in 1935 when he and his family were still living in Germany where he had been a guest of the state police, they ought to provide us with insight about many of the issues we tackle here at the Mirror of Justice seventy-five years later.

 

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