they employ professional legal experts as assessors and leave them in charge of the administration of affairs.a [178] But, should anyone of our nation be questioned about the laws, he would repeat them all more readily than his own name. The result, then, of our thorough grounding in the laws from the first dawn of intelligence is that we have them, as it were, engraven on our souls. A transgressor is a rarity; evasion of punishment by excuses an impossibility. (19) [179] *To this cause above all