Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — The Review for December. [ARTICLE]

The Review for December.

- The danger of incidental harm to the commuhity, or to certain classes of people, from the increased use of machinery, the extension of % public works, etc ~ is greatly diminished w hen those who make the laws, an,d especcially those whose duty it is to interpret them, recognize that law is a progressive science, that it is a means, not an end; that when a state of tilings arises for which there is no precedent, a new precedent mtist be made. How the most enlightened jurists hold tliis principle constantly in view, and how the common as well as the statue law is tit us made to keep pace with the general advance of civilization, is is admirably set forth in the leading article in Che North American Jtgviciv for December, “Labor, and Capital before th a Law.” by Judge 'F. M. ■Cooley, o-l Michigan. 'To -the—samenumber, William K. Ackerman contributes some suggestive “Notes on Ratlwax Management,” Dr. Schliemann tells what he found in cavations of the , ruins of Tiryns, in Southern Greece, and Principal ;Shairi> -supplements his scholarly article—on “Friendship in Ancient Poetry” with one on “Friendship in English Poetry”. The other.jarticles in the number are, “The British Hopse ot Lords, by Geo. Ticknor Curtis, and “Responsibility for State Roguery,” by John F. Hume.