Note 196 — SPEECH. (continued 2)
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The possibility of scandal and commotion was recognized by the great doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, as proper to determine human conduct. According to him, an unjust law is not binding in conscience, nisi forte propter vitandum scandalum vel turbationem.—Summa Theologica, 1ma 2dæ, Quæst. XCVI. art. 4.