ABSTRACT
To the Cartesian school belong almost all the exponents of the higher and middle culture of the eighteenth century: the scientists, . . . the social reformers, drawing up their indictment against history as a museum of irrational uses and abuses, and endeavouring to reconstruct the whole social system; the jurists,
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in whose eyes law is and must be a system deducible from a few universal and self-evident principles.
