in a limited sense, this is correct but it also has to be realised that' in contradiction of the quotation from Dickens, the position is not simply that 'we do as we do' while they 'must do as they do'. when we considered ethnographic example, we did not of course presume to make value judgments about the way in which other societies organised their dispute resolution or rule making because the intention was to illustrate that, for us, law is only an aspect and mechanism in the creation and maintenance of order, and also that not every society feels the need for law, which we often assume to be a universal need.