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Excerpt from Certainty and Justice: Studies of the Conflict Between Precedent and Progress in the Development of the Law The conflict between the wisdom of past generations as embodied in "Precedent" and the ideas of the present day concerning right and justice, usually denominated "Progress," has been for some time past more than usually acute. Questions that were formerly relegated to the dry discussions of legal technicians have now found their way into the press and into the forum of partisan political controversy. It appeared to me that these studies might consequently be of some general interest at the present moment and in the somewhat disturbed state of public opinion on so many questions of fundamental importance. 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.