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Excerpt from Essays in the Law
The name of comparative jurisprudence is modern our current use of the term, with the full meaning which it now bears, is barely a generation old. It seems that about, or possibly before, 1830, some one applied the name of general or comparative juris prudence to the process of ascertaining the principles common to maturer systems of law, or the various analogies obtaining between them the result of which process, it seems to have been supposed, would be a system of universal principles of positive law.2 We are not now concerned to enquire What useful results we should derive from the proposed opera tion; I do not think any one would now maintain that a philosophy of law was likely to be among them. Whatever may be the value of the process or method thus indicated, it is not what we now call comparative.
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