Prophecy, However Honest, Is Generally A Poor

Justice Is Not To Be Taken By Storm. She Is To Be Wooed By Slow Advances. Substitute Statute For Decision, And You Shift The Center Of Authority, But Add No Quota Of Inspired Wisdom.

With Traps And Obstacles And Hazards Confronting Us On Every Hand, Only Blindness Or Indifference Will Fail To Turn In All Humility, For Guidance Or For Warning, To The Study Of Examples.

It Is For Ordinary Minds, Not For Psychoanalysts, That Our Rules Of Evidence Are Framed. They Have Their Source Very Often In Considerations Of Administrative Convenience, Or Practical Expediency, And Not In Rules Of Logic.

What Has Once Been Settled By A Precedent Will Not Be Unsettled Overnight, For Certainty And Uniformity Are Gains Not Lightly Sacrificed. Above All Is This True When Honest Men Have Shaped Their Conduct On The Faith Of The Pronouncement.

Prophecy, However Honest, Is Generally A Poor Substitute For Experience.