 The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.  Monthly Labor Review - Page 8921966Full view - About this book
 | Robin West - 1993 - 458 pages
...syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nations development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is. we must know what... | |
 | G. Edward White - 1995 - 649 pages
...fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book... | |
 | Christopher Wolfe - 1994 - 472 pages
...men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men shall be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is, we must know what... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1994 - 548 pages
...fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. 57 How then does one tell the story of a nation's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1995 - 730 pages
...closing, I would just share with you an observation from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes said that the "law embodies the story of a Nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." Justice Holmes suggests that legal scholars must... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1993 - 480 pages
...given [legal] system, ours, for instance, can be worked out like mathematics."9 Instead, he declared, "The law embodies the story of a nation's development...centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."10 But the great Holmes theme was stated at the... | |
 | Mark V. Tushnet - 1993 - 244 pages
...fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.46 Those lectures, of course, dealt with the common... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1996 - 378 pages
...fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is, we must know what... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - 340 pages
...civilization. On the first page of his masterpiece The Common Law (1881) Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The law embodies the story of a nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."1 In the second volume of The Decline of the West... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - 1997 - 303 pages
...postulates, fit part to part in beautiful, neat logical cohesion." To Holmes instead, as his book declared, "[t]he law embodies the story of a nation's development...centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." The great Holmes theme was stated at the very... | |
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