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Henry James Sumner Maine has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

Happiness Knowledge Legal Trust

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Henry James Sumner Maine has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about happiness, knowledge, legal & trust. People always share Happiness quotes, Knowledge quotes, legal & trust from his literary works.

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  • Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
  • It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
  • Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.