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As soon as you begin to say “We have always done things this way—perhaps that might be a better way,” conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say “We do things this way—they do things that way—what is to be done about it?” men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong. - Helen M. Cam
Attribution: Helen M. Cam (1885–1968), British historian. Lecture, February 18, 1956, at Girton College, Cambridge University. “Law as It Looks to a Historian.”

Categories: Historian, Laws And The Law

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