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 A PRESS ENDORSEMENT OF THE COR P U5 ] UR I 5 HE proposal for a comprehensive, scientiﬁc statement of American law, in a more condensed and convenient form than has ever yet been attained, seems already to have successfully run the gauntlet of professional criticism.

The opinions of leading jurists assembled in our February number constituted perhaps the most remarkable collection of comments on any legal proposition that have ever been got together. What

for investigation in the natural sciences, and for the increased eﬁiciency of

university equipment. The fact is that a layman who is suﬁiciently alert and desirous of making himself useful need not conﬁne his attention to the time honored channels of giving. It is not too much to hope for, that laymen will

quickly appreciate the demand and the opportunity of this proposed Corpus juris. For they have already shown their ability to comprehend the pregnant and invulnerable arguments advanced

ever slight opposition may have since

for it, as appears from the editorial comments published elsewhere in this

developed

number.

among

lawyers

has

been The

This collection of editorial comments

tremendous endorsement secured from

is striking not only on account of the readiness with which the imperative need has been comprehended and the

vague, inarticulate, and negative.

leading members of bench and bar, on the contrary, has expressed itself in the irresistible rhetoric of cogent logic and

remedy accepted with the enthusiasm

intelligent conviction. The inference is not to be avoided that the project has only to be actually launched, under the direction of a suitable editorial staﬂ

born of conviction, but also because of the absence of any earnest adverse

supplied with adequate funds to guaran

have been printed in the press of the

tee complete fulﬁllment, for the legal profession throughout the United States to show its earnest, united support of

country, in which an editor has taken

an undertaking sure to result in priceless beneﬁts.

wey and the learned jurists who have endorsed their views. The group of

But our leading benefactors are not lawyers but laymen. A philanthropist is sometimes able to appreciate needs which can be fully realized only by

editorial comments now printed is doubtless not less signiﬁcant, in its own way, than the former collection of

criticism.

We do not recall a single

instance, among all the comments which

the pains to write in opposition to Messrs. Andrews, Alexander, and Kirch

those of technical training. To this circumstance we owe such endowments

professional opinions. Just as the latter may be taken as gauging the sentiment of the enlightened portion

asthose for advanced medical research,

of the profession, so the former must