That is exactly what it does mean.
But, it will be urged, every man has a free will to act as he chooses;
and to deny that is to imperil all law and order, all morality and
discipline.
I deny both these inferences, and I ask the reader to hear my case
patiently, and to judge it on its merits.
Let us first test the justice of our laws, divine and human: the
question of their usefulness we will deal with later.