Law Must Be Viewed As A Formless

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.

It Is Not Impossible To Think That The Minds Of Philosophers Sometimes Act Like Those Of Other Mortals, And That, Having Once Been Determined By Diverse Circumstances To Adopt Certain Views, They Then Look For And Naturally Find Reasons To Justify These Views.

The Method Of Exposition Which Philosophers Have Adopted Leads Many To Suppose That They Are Simply Inquiries, That They Have No Interest In The Conclusions At Which They Arrive, And That Their Primary Concern Is To Follow Their Premises To Their Logical Conclusions.

A Creative Element Is Surely Present In All Great Systems, And It Does Not Seem Possible That All Sympathy Or Fundamental Attitudes Of Will Can Be Entirely Eliminated From Any Human Philosophy.

Law Must Be Viewed As A Formless Mass Of Isolated Decisions.