If it is necessary that man grasp the truth of things before he can determine the laws of things, we cannot fail to see how important it is that he have a proper theory of knowledge. Man’s idea of law will correspond to his theory of knowledge. When the French people accepted Locke’s theory of knowing they immediately applied it to the laws, establishments, and institutions of the nation. They concluded logically, if all knowledge is of sensations, then there can be no authority for the belief in God, the immortality of the soul, or the divinity of law. These are universal and transcendent facts, but the mind has no capacity to know universal or transcendent facts. So society was to be dissolved into its constituent atoms, in order that individuals could arrange their lives on a universal, go-as-you-please principle. All existing laws and institutions were to be obliterated. Everything that was up was to be put down. There are to-day, scattered through the civilized states of Europe and in some parts of the United States, men who want to emancipate the people from the dominion of all authority. All this grows out of the fashionable and sensational theory of knowledge taught first by John Locke and David Hume, and within recent years by John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer. Here is the source of anarchy. There is not an influential anarchist in the world, but is one upon the basis of the physiological theory of knowledge. There is no objective reality, but such as is composed of material atoms. These have got their arrangement and collocations without the agency of any great co-ordinating mind. They come together in pairs and clusters and groups, by the aid of no power but such as issues from the unknowable. A man is no more a criminal for killing people than is the Mississippi River for overflowing its banks and drowning people. Men are mere products of nature, and their thoughts are only secretions of the brain. Laws and institutions are just the brain deposits of animals we call men, as dams across rivers and cells in gums are the deposits of the brains of beavers and bees.