October 02, 2003
INTOLERABLE SELF-REFERENCE:
This will likely interest no one but Rupert Pupkin, so we beg your brief indulgence, but the Other Brother has been going through our grandfather's paper and found the following in a letter from him to his mother:
March 31, 1929:This evening I had the rare treat of hearing an address by Dean [Roscoe] Pound. Umbreit and I went in after supper at the Ford Hall Forum, where a full hall had gathered to hear him discourse on "The Problem of an Ordered Society." [...] His main thesis was that society has been guided by two
contradictory ideals, the maximum freedom for individual self-assertion, and the maximum of social protection through regulation, but that neither had to be accepted as an inflexible rule. Both are factors which must be considered in working out the system best conducive to the progress of
civilization.
Nice to see the Grand Unified Theory has such a prestigious provenance. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 2, 2003 10:13 AM
According to Edward Levi, when the University of Chicago law school was built, various scholars were invited to contribute papers to be put in the cornerstone. Dean Pound apparently wrote a letter of apology to the future for his generation having lost the power of judicial review through abusing it.
Posted by: David Cohen at October 2, 2003 02:36 PMIf only.
Posted by: oj at October 2, 2003 02:42 PM