The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and Other Matters June 1 1918

In the civilisation characteised by fraud on the other hand the struggle for existence is carried on by cunning and deceit and the wager of battle is replaced by legal chicanery ; political power is obtained no longer at the point of the sword but by money ; money is extracted from the pockets of others by tricks and mysterious mar:uvres sdch as the operation of the stock-exchange. [...] The Commercial warfare is carried on througthe perfection of the means of production but still more through the perfection of the art of deceit the skill acquired in giving the puchaser the impression that he is getting a good bargain. [...] To the first type there belong the Egyptian the Assyrian the Babylonian the Hittite and the Persian civilisations. [...] The halls of justice were usually at the gates of the temples and there the judges the scribes and the elders" assembled. [...] It is hardly necessary now-a-days to insist upon the fact that the well-known narratives of the Genesis such as the two accounts of the Creation and the legend of the Flood are merely excerpts from Babylonian cosmogony and Babylonian Mythology.