Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil.

For example, two Indians domiciled in New York enter into a contract in Italy. For the breach of this contract a suit is brought in a New York court. The defence is lack of capacity. Which of the three laws, Indian, New Yorkian or Italian should apply ?

Then he improved the occasion to give young Finland a lecture upon the impropriety of marrying for money.

Stalin certainly held this view, and so did many Bolsheviks, with their hypostasization of social forces over individual desires and intentions.