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It is not immoderate to say that no other judicial pronouncement in history was so wedded to the inventive genius of man and so interwoven with the economic and social evolution of a nation and a people.
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Beveridge asserts the historical significance of a judicial pronouncement in relation to human innovation and societal evolution.
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