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Excerpt from The American Law School Review, Vol. 3: An Intercollegiate Law Journal; November, 1911 The law is a system of rules evolved by society and evolving with the alteration of ao clety. The rules are not hard and fast and clear-cut, for they are rules applied and to be applied to the facts of real life, facts varying both apparently and actually. Our knowledge of these rules tends to become static. The rules themselves seldom do. Almost every rule has a future growth, as well as a past development. A most vain able phase of legal lore to be imparted to a student of any rule of law is its dynamic force. What is the trend of its development? What is the law of the future? The future, of course, is always beginning with the com ing moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Law Review, Vol. 11: 1876-1877 Untwisting all the chains that he The hidden soul of harmony. It must not be forgotten that all his arguments at the bar were intended to be heard, not read; and that, as he delivered them, every clause was understood, and the general effect which the orator wished to produce was reached at the conclusion of the sentence. Mr. Choate's ear for music demanded a rhythmical sentence. That might be known from the intonations of his voice, from the pathos and sweetness of his cadences. Indeed, I think one of the secrets of his fascination as a lecturer was his frequently chanting periods in a low, rich voice, that accompanied his thought like the sweet tones of a harp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.