| Electronic journals - 1916 - 948 pages
...simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to leam to transcend our own convictions and to leave room...short of revolution by the orderly change of law." 21 Against this subtle danger of the unconscious identification of personal views with constitutional... | |
| Law - 1917 - 1062 pages
...safe to say that Justice Harlan never agreed with Justice Holmes in his belief 23 that judges should "leave room for much that we hold dear to be done...short of revolution by the orderly change of law," if the "orderly change of law" meant to do by construction what should be done by amendment. That an... | |
| United States - 1917 - 554 pages
...Mr. Justice Holmes in a very recent utterance to the Harvard Law School Association of New York: ' 'We, too, need education in the obvious — to learn to transcend our owu convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done sway with short of revolution... | |
| Greek letter societies - 1919 - 394 pages
...common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn...short of revolution by the orderly change of law." (29 HLR 691.) Utter and absolute open-mindedness — having no sympathy whatever with ultra-radical... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1920 - 354 pages
...common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn...have no belief in panaceas and almost none in sudden nun. I believe with Montesquieu that if the chance of a battle — I may add, the passage of a law... | |
| James Mickel Williams - Social psychology - 1920 - 520 pages
...common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn...short of revolution by the orderly change of law.' " 4S On the whole, therefore, the influence of the conception of natural rights on legal development... | |
| Zechariah Chafee - Freedom of speech - 1920 - 450 pages
...common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn...short of revolution by the orderly change 'of law. Consequently, it is a cause for grave concern when we find Judge Albert B. Anderson, who later enjoined... | |
| Zechariah Chafee - Freedom of speech - 1920 - 458 pages
...simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious—to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave...short of revolution by the orderly change of law. Consequently, it is a cause for grave concern when we find Judge Albert B. Anderson, who later enjoined... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - Law - 1920 - 340 pages
...and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need educa- j^1 tion in the obvious — to learn Ho transcend our own .' convictions and to leave room for much that we holdN? ~ dear to be done away with^short of revolutiorrty the orderly change of lawA I have no belief... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - 1921 - 286 pages
...Association. [1921 thing of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious — to learn to transcent cur own convictions and to leave room for much that we...short of revolution by the orderly change of law. ' ' Of his skepticism, profound, although noble and philosophical, there can be no doubt. It has the... | |
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