Excerpt from A Summary of the Law Relating to Pollution of Waters of Lakes and Streams

The laws which govern most of our personal and property rights have shown changes, sometimes very radical, from the laws of earlier times. But it is an interesting and significant fact that even the latest decisions of American courts affirming judgments against offenders who have polluted streams or lakes are based upon certain general principles of law which have always made such acts of pollution both private and public wrongs in the civil and penal codes of all nations and which have remained unchanged from the earliest forms of written law known in history to the present time. These principles, and the law which arose from them, can be read today in the manuscripts which, written in hieroglyphics and pictured in crude outline drawings, were buried with the Egyptian princes who lived, fought and died upon the banks of the Nile thousands of years before the migration of the founder of Israel into the land of the Pharaohs. To these ancient worshippers of nature the waters of the Nile and of all its tributaries were a divine gift for the use and comfort of man.

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