The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal.
The reconciliation of the irreconcilable, the merger of antitheses, the synthesis of opposites, these are the great problems of the law…
Deep below consciousness are other forces, the likes and the dislikes, the predilections and the prejudices, the complex of instincts and emotions and habits and convictions