The Magician's Hidden Library Magic Words: A Dictionary

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MAGIC WORDS Law professor Ronald Dworkin suggests that jurisprudence relies upon "the faculty of making clear what was dark without making it dull." "[C]larity enhances rather than disspates the power of an idea. That is magic, and it is the magic that jurisprudence needs to work."15 In Literature: • "'Jurisprudence!'" exclaimed the thick voice of the public prosecutor, who was aroused from his stupor by this magic word; 'let us talk jurisprudence.'" -- Charles de Bernard, Gerfaut: Immortals Crowned by the French Academy, Vol. 4 (18 8) 15 Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (200 )
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