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The Roman legislation was in a twofold manner the child of philosophy. It was in the first place formed upon the philosophical model, for, instead of being a mere empirical system adjusted to the existing requirements of society, it laid down abstract principles of right to which it endeavored to conform; and, in the next place, these principles were borrowed directly from stoicism.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
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