Prophecy, However Honest, Is Generally A Poor

It Is For Ordinary Minds, Not For Psychoanalysts, That Our Rules Of Evidence Are Framed. They Have Their Source Very Often In Considerations Of Administrative Convenience, Or Practical Expediency, And Not In Rules Of Logic.

In Our Worship Of Certainty We Must Distinguish Between The Sound Certainty And The Sham, Between What Is Gold And What Is Tinsel; And Then, When Certainty Is Attained, We Must Remember That It Is Not The Only Good; That We Can Buy It At Too High A Price; That There Is Danger In Perpetual Quiescence As Well As In Perpetual Motion; And That A Compromise Must Be Found In A Principle Of Growth.

With Traps And Obstacles And Hazards Confronting Us On Every Hand, Only Blindness Or Indifference Will Fail To Turn In All Humility, For Guidance Or For Warning, To The Study Of Examples.

The Judge Is Not The Knight-errant, Roaming At Will In Pursuit Of His Own Ideal Of Beauty Or Of Goodness.

I Take Judge-made Law As One Of The Existing Realities Of Life.