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Excerpt from Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law the Wager of Battle the Ordeal Torture
Since the origin of society, each unit of our race has struggled on in his allotted path, through joys and griefs, fashioned, for the most part, by the invisible network of habits, customs, and statutes, which surround him on every side, and silently shape his daily actions. Thus the history of jurisprudence becomes the history of the life of man, and the society of distant ages is more distinctly presented to us in the crabbed sentences of codes than in the ?owing rhetoric of the historian. Slender as may be the respect with which we of to-day sometimes regard rotatory assem blymen and partisan judges, still are they none the less noteworthy personages. The parts are more important than the actors, and centuries hence it will be to our statute books and reports that the curious student will resort to find out what manner of men were the restless and ener getic race which found self-government a harder task than the founding of a gigantic empire.
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Since the origin of society, each unit of our race has struggled on in his allotted path, through joys and griefs, fashioned, for the most part, by the invisible network of habits, customs, and statutes, which surround him on every side, and silently shape his daily actions. Thus the history of jurisprudence becomes the history of the life of man, and the society of distant ages is more distinctly presented to us in the crabbed sentences of codes than in the ?owing rhetoric of the historian. Slender as may be the respect with which we of to-day sometimes regard rotatory assem blymen and partisan judges, still are they none the less noteworthy personages. The parts are more important than the actors, and centuries hence it will be to our statute books and reports that the curious student will resort to find out what manner of men were the restless and ener getic race which found self-government a harder task than the founding of a gigantic empire.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Henry C. Lea
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331818390
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 401
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Contributors
Author
Henry C. Lea
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ISBN - 9781330936337
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 403
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