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               %REDUCTION OF WISDOM TO FORMAL RULES 810215

     Legalists try to reduce wisdom to a system of  formal
rules.  They go to the opposite extreme from that of those
who  seek  to enforce informal rules by  the  exercise  of
formal authority and power.  Wisdom can not be formalized.
Wisdom  can not be reduced to a system of any form.   Love
motivates people to act wisely. Love can not be reduced to
any formal system.   This does not mean that it is wise to
be  disrespectful  of formal systems which  guarantee  due
process consideration of grievances.

     People   who  would  replace  formal  systems   which
guarantee  due process with informal love and  concern  do
not   understand   that  absolute  power  without   formal
restraint kills love.   People who would replace  informal
processes  and the wisdom of love with  legalistic  formal
systems  do not understand that formal systems can not  do
that  which love does.   Both love and formal systems have
their  place,  and their limitations;  both are essential,
and both are destructive  if  given absolute  power to the
exclusion of the other.   Each complements the other,  and
becomes  inhumane  without the other.   Each  defines  the
limits  of  the other and thereby augments the meaning  of
the other.
                                                                                                                               
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