Roscoe Pound (1870–1964)

I picked this book up because it was my Dad's. I know he must have read it around 1929 from the inscription in the front...he would have been 23 and studying law then. At the time it was currant. Reading now gives me perspective for the thinking then, what might have shaped his career and thoughts. I'm not particularly interested in law per se but the historical slant does interest me and any book that has quotes like this: "Coke's observation that many things have been introduced into the show more common law because of "convenience" and his proposition that the law will suffer a private mischief, i.e. a curtailment of individual right, rather than an "inconvenience," remained profoundly true." are worth my time. Plus, it's beautiful raw cut pages smell of old book and pipe smoke...which takes me back to visiting my Dad's law office when I was a kid. show less

In the process of presenting how our present system of law came to be, this book makes a good point in explaining how the purpose of the justice system is to alleviate a person's desire for revenge as a result of the wrong that was done against them.

An excellent work: Prof. Pound started The Harvard Lodge and has surveyed some of the great thinkers of Freemasonry. In the course of his analysis, Prof. Pound looks at the philosophical background of each: Preston, Pike, Krause, and Oliver. His conclusions, right for his time, are excellent.

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