Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
p. 68 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009314162&view=1up&seq=72 <br class="br">Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
“To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.”
— Han Fei
from "Having Regulations—A Memorandum" in The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu, Volume I, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1939. Translated by W.K. Liao.
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