ABSTRACT
The organized beings which have an end and the external means to attain it are born in a state of weakness of means which prevents them from attaining their end. This is the imperfect state; and it is imperfect since it tends toward another state which is better and stronger. Some use their developed means in the manner best suited to the end for which they exist, and attain that state which is called maturity in the plant, manhood and reason in man, and civilization in society. This is the perfect or natural state of beings. Society, to attain its end, which is its conservation, has laws, which are its will, and persons, the means or ministers of the laws in the execution of social action. Corrupt society has a disordered will, or laws against nature, and a disordered action.
