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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A point illustrated and enforced by an anecdote or story becomes an integral part of a man's mental and moral constitution.
When I was elected, I do not think there was a single lighthouse, or fog signal, or foghorn, on the waters of Puget Sound, and I secured the establishment of quite a number of them.
This is particularly true of speeches founded on a dreary array of facts and statistics.
He is constantly called upon to push land-claims to patent, and in this respect he becomes the attorney, without fee, of the people of the Territory.
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