If, however, even fairly well I might garner up and hand down some of the experiences of the generation of lawyers now passing, I would feel that I had, in some humble measure, discharged that obligation that Lord Bacon says, "every man owes to his profession.
Stevenson expresses his intention to document the experiences of a generation of lawyers as a professional obligation.
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