"When the laws
regulating human society are so formed as to come into collision with the
nature of things, and in particular with the fundamental realities of human
nature, they will end by producing an impossible situation which, unless the
laws are altered, will issue in . . . catastrophes. . . ."
Dorothy Sayers, "The 'laws' of nature and opinion," chap. 1 in The mind of the maker (New
York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941), 8.
