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Excerpt from Oxford Lectures: And Other Discourses
J urisprudence, juris prudentia or peritia, Rechtswis senschafi - these are terms current among lawyers and scholars, and imply the existence of a systematic body Of doctrine; Of a special kind of knowledge which can be and is methodically treated, and possesses methods and ideas proper to itself. A body Of such special knowledge is a science, unless it depends only on the application Of other and more general sciences. Thus there are scientific treatises on gunnery, navigation, and railway engineering. But we should hardly say that seamanship, or gunnery, or the construction of locomotives, is a science of itself. The application of the seaman's, or gunner's, or locomotive engineer's knowledge is a distinct art in itself, having in each case its own distinct practical end, and needing to be separately studied by those who would be skilled in it. But the knowledge that guides the art is Obtained by the application to a. Particular kind Of cases of general physical truths, and the methods are applications of those discovered.
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