Orange Jacobs: “The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and…”

Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.

He had to rely on his remembrance of general principles; and he learned to reason from those general principles to his conclusions; and his success at the Bar depended upon the clearness of his statements and the cogency and force of his…

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.