n i i A.V.C.RHUIZING /f 7 A UT HORITY THE FUNCTION OF AUTHORITY IN LIFE AND ITS RELATION TO LEGALISM IN ETHICS AND RELIGION BY A. v. C. P. HUIZINGA Author of "Belief in a Personal God" "The American Philosophy Pragmatism" " The Authority of Might and Right," etc. " Without authority the objective norm of truth and value and faith repose in it as our immediate standard life could not well be lived. Is it not strange, therefore, that those who are willing slaves to the idols of our day should clamor for free- dom from all restraint, and raise an outcry against all legitimate authority ?' BOSTON SHERMAN, FRENCH & COMPANY 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911 SHERMAN, FRENCH