CHAP. XXII.: The same Subject continued.

WHEN a people have pure and regular manners, their laws become simple and natural. Plato Of laws, lib. 12. ^†695 says that Rhadamanthus, who governed a nation extremely religious, finished every process with extraordinary dispatch, administering only the oath on each accusation. But, says the same Plato Of laws, lib. 12. ^†696, when a people are not religious, we should never have recourse to an oath, except he who swears is intirely disinterested, as in the case of a judge and a witness.