Orange Jacobs: “Brilliant prospects, and glowing anticipations, evanished like the rainbow amid the storm of fire.”

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…

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

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.

While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.