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Show 64 tained to their porticulQf interests in the cotton CIS o rault of the fire. The cos,e went to court and the Judge .uord the argument. He handed down Q rea soned oeeision" and he dJd it in this wrq: It is true, he reasoned that it was the Injured paw thot set the cotton afire. But it WQS. the other three paws that carried the flamlng 'bonckt;e to the cotton. Therefore the plaintiffs were 0$ respoMlble for the fir. os the defendant, end damages were not allowed. Thctt ended the CCM, QttGI. no one eon obied to the logie. The p&int I went to mOKe b that low ends with the decisIon in the last, but with UrI mueh Htigatie.n has its beginni'ng in the reusoning of a previou$ COle. I am not _ndem,,'", the U$e of re,CISOft, but 1 do condemn the bl)Uding of future law upon de,ducHQn$ made in,the sustaining of G decis'on. When law dedls with obstractions like freedom, even it is eaUed c practical reo.llty, freedom remains exactly where it was before the decbion was made. The physicaJ or ideol facts control. But the r_.on our deduction may be fading harm tQ the people's welt-bein; if G court is controlled by an untrue definition based upon o theory of Q fundamental law instead of Q theory based upon an actual foet. For the FHJrpo$Et of thi$ $veniog's address, I have been trying to moke the point thot society builds its Justification for its oetlens upon theories end those theorIes ore bGSieolly connected with what is QSwmed to be physical foct. Therefore, cs long cs Newton's theory held in .t Jlelds of or we had c:onelv slcns ending with deductions ccnsistent with that theory. As I.ftg G$ Darwin's theories ore aeeepted as foets we could never avoid the idea of growth, and when the DGrWinian theory is connected with Conderc:ett$ action of progress, the idea of change for the better under I lea all reasoned conclusions. Each of these theories though, I ike its pre<ieee$Sors, leaves us with cenclustens that ore obsolute. It is, therefore, i,n the discovery of a new idea that we may hope for the next necessary chcmge in our seclel, politicoi, and legal theory. That idea h. It need not be explained any more come into the world. them J have exphdn,ed Newton's theories of bal once Gnd Darwin', theoriG$ of growth, becQuse other dedeetlens do not come from the actual truthfulness of Q theory. They |
