If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, fr… - Benjamin N. Cardozo

Fulfillment may fall short of expectation. At least there has been gained a foothold from which occasion can be seized.

The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.