"THE WHOLE FIELD OF MAN AS A SOCIAL BEING"

The cover to The University of Chicago Law School Record (The Interdisciplinary Issue) (Spring 2014), which I referenced in yesterday's post, has a quote from William Rainey Harper. It is as follows: "A University School of Law is far more than a training institute for admission to the bar. It implies a scientific knowledge of the law and of legal and juristic methods. But these are the crystallization of ages of human progress. They cannot be understood in their entirety without a clear comprehension of the historic forces of which they are the product, and of the social environment with which they are in living contact. A scientific study of law involved the related sciences of history, economics, philosophy--the whole field of man as a social being."