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Law, Logic and Experience
Gilmore, Grant
Gilmore, Grant
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Abstract
One reason for the popular dislike of lawyers is that they do not think like human beings. No doubt there is such as thing as a natural aptitude for the study and practice of law: a remote detachment of mind allied with a passionate cantankerousness and a child's love for words. If you were not like that, you would not be here. And, assuming the natural bent of the twig, the lawyer's training progressively dehumanizes him until his remaining contact with the human race is tenuous indeed. The truth of the matter is that lawyers are, ex officio, the relativists of societies in quest of absolutes, and it is no wonder that they are disliked.