 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1836 - 136 lapas
...people."f Then again, this system divorced law from public opinion. Sir Henry Maine has well observed, that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law, and that the greater or less happiness of a nation depends on the degree of promptitude with which... | |
 | 1869 - 406 lapas
...may accept it as an augury of good that it has become possible to enact these beneficial measures. " Social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law." It is the mission of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ to infuse her lofty principles into society,... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1867 - 494 lapas
...development of law. Hereafter, investigations must be confined to progressive races of men. With these, social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law, Law is stable; society is progressive. How shall this gulf be narrowed which has a perpetual tendency... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 lapas
...analogous to Disease in the body ; 2 so, precisely as the philanthropic 1 ' It may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. Laws are stable. Societies are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1875 - 480 lapas
...myself in what follows to the (progressive societies. With respect to them it mayBe laid. down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law.y We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap beiween them, but it has a perpetual... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny, Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 264 lapas
...State. " With respect to progressive societies," writes Sir Henry Maine.f " it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. * " Or again we may take an instance where the alteration is perhaps actually going on—the claims... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1878 - 192 lapas
...State. " With respect to progressive societies," writes Sir Henry Maine;f " it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. * " Or again we may take an instance where the alteration is perhaps actually going on — the claims... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1886 - 570 lapas
...the times, if not in its wording, still in its application. "It may be laid down," says Maine,* "that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law." . . . " We may come definitely near to the closing of the gap between them but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1886 - 572 lapas
...times, if not in its wording, still in its application. "It maybe laid down," says.Maine,* •'' that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of law." . . . " We may come definitely near to the closing of the gap between them but it has a perpetual tendency to reopen. Law... | |
 | Nagendra Nath Ghosh - 1887 - 222 lapas
...Law throws light upon the point : " With respect to progressive societies it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law." Law perforjns different functions in stationary and in progressive countries. Where the people are... | |
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Law is stable, . . . societies .. . are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. 
