The human judgment is imperfect--and prescience is limited--hence any approach to perfection in the system itself, or in its administrative provisions, is a matter of evolution of slow growth--and of the survival of the fittest.
Jacobs reflects on the imperfections of human judgment and the gradual evolution of effective systems.
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