Few things . . . have had more tendency to confine the study of law to lawyers, and thus to lessen its salutary influence, than the vicious style in which most legal works have been written.
(Review of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, Being the First Part of a Series of Lectures on Jurisprudence, or, the Philosophy of Positive Law, by John Austin; and Lectures on Jurisprudence, Being the Sequel to “The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.” To Which Are Added Notes and Fragments Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, by John Austin, The North American Review 100 [January 1865]: 246-53, at 248)
