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Excerpt from Natural Law and Legal Practice: Lectures Delivered at the Law School of Georgetown University
IN this century, political and social relations, commer cial interests, and the opposite claims of Capital and Labor, of individual freedom and State authority, have grown so complex that the multiplication of legal safe guards has become a necessity of modern civilized life. We are far from the rugged conciseness of the Twelve Tables enlarged and amended by Pretorian edicts, or from the simplicity of Common Law, springing from customs, and supplemented by Parliamentary statutes: a modern jurist must be thoroughly acquainted with Constitutional Law, Law Merchant, Criminal Law, and the Law of Na tions; each of these important branches of judicature is subdivided, and each subdivision requires individual treat ment and special study. This complexity is bewildering, but unavoidable; for it is in keeping with the nature of the? Human mind, which cannot comprehend a whole sub ject at a glance, but must break it, as it were, into frag ments, in order to master successively all its parts, and to conquer the difficulties one by one.
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