ABSTRACT

IT is a curious fact that while critics and reformers of the law formerly used to take their stand on self-evident truths, and eternal principles of justice and reason, their appeal now is predorninantly to vital needs, social welfare, the real or practical need of the times, etc. Those who believe law to be not an isolated island in vacuo but a province of the life we call civilization, occupying similar soil and subject to the same change of intellectual season as the other provinces, will see in the fact noted above nothing but an indication of the general passing out of fashion of the old rationalism or intellectualism.