...a general survey of the facts of to-day as compared with those of sixty years ago, it is clear that the bar counts for less as a guiding and restraining...attachment to rule and precedent than it did then." With the more general diffusion of opportunities for education and the increase of professional and...

...a general survey of the facts of to-day as compared with those of sixty years ago, it is clear that the bar counts for less as a guiding and restraining...attachment to rule and precedent than it did then." Wift> the more general diffusion of opportunities for education and the increase of professional and...

...development of universities and the legal profession. Sixty years after Tocqueville, Bryce noted that, "in a country where there is no titled class, no landed...class, the chief distinction which popular sentiment can lay hold of as raising one set of persons above another is the character of their occupation, the...

...more traditional societies. As the visiting James Bryce observed: "In a country where there is not titled class, no landed class, no military class, the chief distinction which popular sentiment can lay hold of as raising one set of persons above another is the character of their occupations,...

...general survey of the facts of to-day, as compared with those of sixty years ago, it is clear that the Bar counts for less as a guiding and restraining...class, the chief distinction which popular sentiment can lay hold of as raising one set of persons above another is the character of their occupation, the...