 The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment of adjudication.  Journal of the Department of Letters - Page 26by University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...It is, to use a French phrase, " in the air." The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...It is, to use a French phrase, "in the air." The only authoritative statement off right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the ! facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Emily Faithfull - 1863 - 592 pages
...legislature is contemplated or conceived of. . . The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into tlje judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1868 - 524 pages
...„Themistes" ready at hand (isolated jugements). The only authoritative statement of right or wrong is a judicial sentence, after the facts, not one presupposing a law, which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1870 - 434 pages
...It is, to use a French phrase, " in the air." The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - Natural law - 1872 - 476 pages
...shall not imply that it is in tradition?] " The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Ireland - Irish language - 1879 - 666 pages
...phrase, ' in the air.' The only authoritative statement of right and wrong, is a judicial decision after the facts — not one pre-supposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - Ethnology - 1881 - 220 pages
...„Themistes" ready at hand (isolated jugements). The only authoritative statement of right or wrong is a judicial sentence, after the facts, not one presupposing a law, which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | William Henry Fremantle - Bible - 1885 - 488 pages
...It is, to use a French phrase, " in the air." The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which has been breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Evolution - 1896 - 352 pages
...It is, to use a French phrase, " in the air." The only authoritative statement of right and wrong is a judicial sentence after the facts, not one presupposing a law which has been violated, but one which is breathed for the first time by a higher power into the judge's mind at the moment... | |
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