Introduction And Notes To Sir Henry Maines Ancient Law

Author : Frederick Pollock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334699061
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine's "Ancient Law" (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Pollock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine's "Ancient Law" There is no better witness to the intrinsic weight of Maine's work than the nature of some criticism it has met with, from competent persons on the Continent rather than at home. So far as those learned persons complain of anything, they miss that symmetrical construction of a finished system to which their training has ac customed them. Now it is to be observed that no words of Maine's own ever gave his readers the promise of a systematic doctrine. Not one of his books professed on the face of it to account for the ultimate origin of human laws, or to settle the relations of jurisprudence to ethics, or to connect the science of law with any theory of politics or of social development. Yet it does not seem to have occurred to the critics in question to charge Maine with remissness in not having attempted these things. The disappointment ex pressed was that he did not fully accomplish them, or that, if he had a solution, he never sufficiently declared it. Regret that Maine's work was not more openly ambitious is legitimate, though I do not share it expression of it might have signified much or little. It might have been thoroughly sincere, and due to imperfect under standing oi the relations to time, circumstances. 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.