A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous
Frederick Pollock
doctrine suspicion open
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
life man
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
truth
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
art
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
rules the-public
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
tests action
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
principles men
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
doubt
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
revolution merit
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
pet circles
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