"Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed."

Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian

Happiness, People, Law

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"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code."

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"In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world."

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"The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions."

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"When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development."

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"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing."

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"The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another."

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"It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."

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"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."

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