The Natural History of Law
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Excerpt from The Natural History of Law: Inaugural Lecture The accession of a new professor to a well-established Chair places him as well as his hearers in an initial difficulty. He is necessarily subject to the cleansing fires of comparison with his predecessors, and such a process is not conducive to equanimity. At the best he approaches his work with a chastened spirit, and in his attempt to indicate the lines of thought which he proposes to follow he is likely to steer with uneven keel between the Scylla of mere imitation and the still more dangerous Charybdis, the whirlpool of forced originality. These difficulties are peculiarly obvious in the case of a professor of Comparative Law who succeeds Sir John Macdonell, a man of untiring industry and resourceful idealism, whose capacity for research in many fields of law is coupled with a sense of literary effectiveness possessed by few jurists. To imitate him in his own spheres of work would be a counsel of perfection which I do not propose to follow. Yet if the professor turns his frail bark from the rocks of Scylla and seeks safety from comparison by steering for the open sea of new research, he suddenly sees before him the seething waters of Charybdis, whirling the bodies of earlier adventurers, some slain by the sea, but most butchered by one another. My first duty, then, is to steer ahead without shipwreck, while ever bearing in mind the example set by my predecessor and never forgetting that any attempt to reach new waters is fraught with perils; the perils of ignorance, of over-confidence, of pettiness of soul, of the competitive as opposed to the collaborative mind. 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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