Orange Jacobs: “It is of the very essence of general laws, at least, that they should be uniform and universal.”

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.

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.

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.