A Legislator (n.) of values has always blindfolded himself against the abyss: Plato called his good "the good in itself," and founders of religions dared their "thou shalt" only as the command of a god.
The Legislator (n.) as creative artist shapes man through a lawgiving morality, through laws, religions and customs over long periods.
The Legislator (n.) of morals seems everywhere else an imitation and even a caricature of Manu's priestly codex — even Plato seems to have been well instructed by a Brahmin.
A Legislator (n.) is the man who can turn the most fluid thing, the spirit, to stone for long periods: he is the sculptor, and the rest are clay.
A Legislator (n.) of new values, once neither God nor eternal values can relieve his conscience, faces a new and unprecedented terror.