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Politics : Evolution

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7525)6/16/2010 8:25:42 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
DRUDGERY OF THE LAW

Quite naturally it followed that he could not submit to the drudgery of the law, the loss of valuable time poring over State and Federal Reports, and while his library was a rich storehouse of all legal lore he yet often displayed impatience when obliged to resort to it. His clerks relieved him of that drudgery. Nevertheless, in spite of his natural antipathies, and fully conscious of his quick mental perceptions his genius for all acquisition -- he acknowledged his debt to that early study and application which had so thoroughly drilled and equipped him for his profession. In his young manhood he had read and studied with industry and enthusiasm, even to the breaking down of his physical health. He knew the law in all its phases, -- its history, principles and interpretations -- as few men knew it. And he knew how to apply it. He was a maker of opinion and its interpreter in nearly every continent and province of human thought.
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