The value of such a study is by no means confined to the legal profession. Mr. John Morley, in his address on popular culture,1 has recommended such a study of "reasoning in real matter" as part of a practical education; it "would make such a manual,” he says, "as no other matter could, for opening plain men's eyes to the logical pitfalls among which they go stumbling and crashing, when they think they are disputing like Socrates or reasoning like Newton. They would see how a proposition or an expression that looks straightforward and unmistakable is yet, on examination, found to be capable of bearing several distinct interpretations, and meaning several distinct things; . . how necessary it is, before you set out, to know exactly what it is you intend to show, or what it is you intend to dispute. It is from the generality of people having neglected to practice the attention on these and the like matters that interest and prejudice find so ready an instrument of sophistry in that very art of speech which ought to be the organ of reason and truth.” V. V. V. 1 Miscellanies, iii, 21-24. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Argument in the Case of Farrington Against Saunders, 1870- 684 Judicial Opinion in the Case of Dred Scott Against Sandford, 697 Argument in the Case of Garnett Against the United States, 1870 762 WENDELL PHILLIPS. Argument in Support of a Petition for the Removal of Judge 779 CHARLES O'CONOR. Argument in the Case of the Brig-of-War General Armstrong, 823 Brief of Argument in the Prize Cases, 1862-International Law.. 906 DAVID DUDLEY FIELD. Argument on Behalf of William H. McCardle, 1868-Constitu- 969 WILLIAM M. EVARTS. Brief and Argument in the Lemmon Slave Case, 1860-Constitu- .1023 Argument on Behalf of the United States Before the Tribunal of Argument in the Case of Churchill Against the Bank of Utica, ...1084 LORD BOWEN. Judicial Opinion in the Case of the Mogul Steamship Company 1160 ..1169 Judicial Opinion in the Case of the Maxim-Nordenfeld Guns & Judicial Opinion in Allcard Against Skinner, 1887-Undue Influ- ence .1192 Professional Opinion on the Constitutionality of the World's .1304 |