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We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
Deep below consciousness are other forces, the likes and the dislikes, the predilections and the prejudices, the complex of instincts and emotions and habits and convictions, which make the man, whether he be litigant or judge.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)