“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.”
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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Category: legal
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“Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.”
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Author: Henry James Sumner Maine
Category: trust
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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.”
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Author: Henry James Sumner Maine
Category: knowledge
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“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
Author: Henry James Sumner Maine
Category: happiness
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