Essential Nature of Law

“This work belongs to a class which is scarcely represented in our Anglo-American legal literature, though our English brethren need go no farther than Scotland to find a soil, nourished by Continental ideas, which has proved congenial to its growth… it is profound without being obscure and bears evidence of wide reading and reflection, the purpose of the book is to lay down the moral principles upon which law must ultimately rest.” – Excerpts from the book review which appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 6