The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle so consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze most people think it. If they perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, surely they will cease to grumble.
