Word: pragmatist
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According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice. He has seen that, in any society, it is merely the will that has known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community...
...Wang Yang Ming, I'dealist and Pragmatist of the Ming Dynasty". Professor Porter, Sever...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...
...Samuel Atkins Eliot: "The literary executors of my late father, President Emeritus Charles William Eliot of Harvard University, are myself and Jerome Davis Greene, his onetime secretary. Last week we authorized Henry James, son of Pragmatist William James, nephew and namesake of the novelist, to prepare my father's biography. Biographer James is a Harvard overseer. He wrote The Life of Richard Olney...
Conceivably there are three possible reactions to this state of affairs. "As good a criterion as any other" might be the observation of the cynic, or "Another argument for good teams," that of the pragmatist. But to the serious and thoughtful observer, these facts cannot fail to bring a renewed appreciation of the extent to which the distorted sense of values induced by the present overemphasis of football, has seeped into American academic life...