In societies for play there are laws required for the conduct of the game, and these laws are different in each game. The foundation, I own, of such societies is frivolous, and the laws are in a great measure, though not altogether, capricious and arbitrary. So far is there a material difference between them and the rules of justice, fidelity and loyalty. The general societies of men are absolutely requisite for the subsistence of the species, and the public conveniency, which regulates morals, is inviolably established in the nature of man and of the world in which he lives. The comparison, therefore, in these respects is very imperfect. We may only learn from it the necessity of rules wherever men have any intercourse with each other. They cannot even pass each other on the road without rules. Waggoners, coachmen, and postilions have principles by which they give way, and these are chiefly founded on mutual ease and convenience. Sometimes also they are arbitrary, at least dependent on a kind of capricious analogy, like many of the reasonings of lawyers.​[117] To carry the matter further, we may observe that it is impossible for men so much as to murder each other without statutes and maxims and an idea of justice and honour. War has its laws as well as peace, and even that sportive kind of war carried on among wrestlers, boxers, cudgel-players, gladiators, is regulated by fixed principles. Common interest and utility beget infallibly a standard of right and wrong among the parties concerned. NOTE, OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. [117] That the lighter machine yields to the heavier, and in machines of the same kind, that the empty yields to the loaded—this rule is founded on convenience. That those who are going to the capital take place of those who are coming from it—this seems to be founded on some idea of the dignity of the great city, and of the preference of the future to the past. From like reasons, among foot-walkers, the right-hand entitles a man to the wall and prevents jostling, which peaceable people find very disagreeable and inconvenient. ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF AUTHORITIES CITED BY HUME. ÆMILIUS, PAULUS, Roman general, B.C. 230–157. Defeated Perseus of Macedonia. AGATHOCLES, tyrant of Syracuse, born _circa_ B.C. 361, died 289. ALCIBIADES, Athenian general and statesman, born B.C. 450, died B.C. 404. A disciple of Socrates, and noted for dissoluteness. ALEXANDER the Great, born B.C. 356, died 323. ANACHARSIS, Scythian philosopher, B.C. 600. Much esteemed by Solon. ANTHONY, MARK, Triumvir, born _circa_ B.C. 85, died B.C. 30. Best known through his association with Cleopatra. ANTIGONUS, one of the greatest generals of Alexander the Great. Slain in 301 at Ipsus. ANTIPATER, minister of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great, died B.C. 319. APPIANUS (Appian), belonged to the time of Trajan, and wrote the history of Rome in Greek. ARATUS, general of the Achæan League, born B.C. 271, died 213.