"From an early time, again, we have had a central and powerful legislature which, as it represents the estates of the whole realm, has made statutes binding on the whole, and knows no legal bounds to its competence. Thus our laws have been eminently national and positive, and our particular legal habit of mind is perhaps the most insular of our many insular traits. Our long standing apart from the general movement of European thought has had its drawbacks; but I think it the better opinion that both in jurisprudence and in the not wholly dissimilar case of philosophy the gain has outweighed them."
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'The Methods of Jurisprudence', an introductory lecture delivered at University College, London (31 October 1882), quoted in Frederick Pollock, Oxford Lectures and Other Discourses (1890), p. 25
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Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC FBA (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937) was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F. W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.
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