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Socrates refused to escape from the prison. He demonstrated his respect to law at the cost of losing his life. Although, he himself may doubt the justice of the law, which sentenced him to death, he nevertheless obeyed it. Socrates¡¯ unswervingly love to law moves me every time I read that part of history. It tells me that law must be obeyed whether it is just or unjust. In fact, no one is objective enough to claim that a particular line of law is just or unjust. No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institution and ways of thinking. Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular growing environment. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
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