Response to T.H. "White's The Once and Future King" Might for Right “Anguish of Ireland had once dreamed of a wind which blew down all their castles and towns, and this one was conspiring to do it.” This quote from The Once and Future King symbolizes the huge wars fought, as well as the wars to come, during King Arthur’s reign, in which blood flowed as freely as the rivers. The Once and …showed first 75 words of 1636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1636 total…Eventually, Arthur saw law as a possibility to control evil. The law now became his chief interest and his final effort against Might. “In Uther Pendragon's time there had been no law to speak of . . .” but now for Arthur, “ . . . there were three kinds of law to be wrestled with. He was trying to boil them down, from customary, cannon, and Roman law, into a single code which he hoped to call the civil one.” (p. 552).