 | John Fiske - 1903 - 432 pages
...natural history ; nor could there be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the study of the principles of a natural arrangement,...elaborated, and which are still the best school for learning 8? their use. Of this, the great authority on codification, Bentham, was perfectly aware ; and his... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1890 - 874 pages
...history; nor could there," he adds, " be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the principles of a natural arrangement, not only...are still the best school for learning their use." He further tells us that of this, Jeremy Bentham was perfectly aware, and that his " Fragment on Government"... | |
 | Linnean Society of London - 1888 - 608 pages
...natural history ; nor could there be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the study of the principles of a natural arrangement,...their actual application to the class of phenomena Cor which they were first elaborated, and which are still the best school for learning their use. Of... | |
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The proper arrangement, for example, of a code of laws, depends on the same scientific conditions as the classifications in natural history ; nor could there be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the study of the principles... 
