On What Is Just Regarding the Alienation of Property of Minors

...altercations, fictions, subtleties, or other useless things, which tend toward nothing but future oblivion. But many have shown that these men err, wandering in a field of prejudices or passions, which they do not know how to effectively resist; and thus, truth itself speaks, that they are cast into an infinite labyrinth of absurdities who labor so anxiously to find absurdities in Roman Law. Indeed, we are not ignorant that Natural Law contributes much to a more accurate understanding of Roman Law, and for that reason, we think its study should be usefully added before the exploration of Roman Law; but to claim that it alone suffices for the name of Jurisconsult is to be denied until one is hoarse. Nor is it credible that the most excellent star of the firmament of learned men, Grotius Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist, intended this very thing while he wrote his eternal book On the Law of War and Peace.