The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking Essays And Addresses
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Law, says Blackstone, is a rule of action prescribed by the supreme power of a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. But what are a state and supreme power and right and wrong? If all such terms admitted of com- plete determination, then the science of law would be a branch of pure, and its practice a branch of applied, mathematics. But does not the lawyer sometimes arrive at correct conclusions? Undoubtedly he does some- times, and, what may seem yet more astonishing, s...o does your historian and even your sociologist, and that without the help of accident. When this happens, how- ever, when these students arrive, I do not say at truth, for that may be by lucky accident or happy chance or a kind of intuition, but when they arrive at conclusions that are correct, then that is because they have been for the moment in all literalness acting the part of mathematician. I do not say that for the aggrandise- ment of mathematics. Rather is it for credit to all thinkers that none can show you any considerable gar- 134 THE UNIVERSE AND BEYOND ment of thought in which you may not find here and there, rarely enough sometimes, a golden fibre woven in some, it may be, exceptional moment, of precise con- ception and rigorous reasoning.
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