The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters April 16 1918

On the threshold of a new course of study it is natural to ask it) What is the object of the course of study ? (2) What is the nature of the special subject of our study viz. [...] In the third—the final stage the student is to explore the realms of science which lie beyond the immediate boundaries of the law and ascertain its origin its essential nature the method of its development the funtion it fills in human society and the place it occupies in the general system of human knowledge or in other words the student is to study what may be called the philosophy of th [...] As the world has grown wiser with the march of time each class of jurists has somewhat abated its pretensions and bas each taken what is good from the other and we can even now hear the dying echo of distant din of clashing words of the Knights of the different schools across the seas. [...] point has taken place through the development of comparative juriprudence by both schools through the abandonment by the philosphical school of the quest for a metaphysical science of absolute legal principles and substitution of an endeavour to deduce and fix the element of the just in and out of the positive law and throuth the giving over by the historical school of the view of their f [...] Spinoza and Leibnitz had also the same opinion as regards the relation of the soul and body but this was not the unanimous opinion of the sages of old.