POETRY ON THE BENCH.
CHIEF JUSTICE QUOTES DAXTE. Tho Court of Appeal docs nnt oflen drop into poetry. Once last year, Mr. Justice Cooper, in an interesting judgment, drew upon a famous passage in "Paradise, Lost" for a definition of tolal blindness. Yesterday afternoon, the Chief Justice (Sir ftobcrt Stout) resorted to Dante for support on quits a • different point. • "'The defendant auks," he said, in tho course of a written judgment, "that a yes-or-no answer should be given. A yes-or-no answer cannot always be given to these questions, asked under an originating summons. What is said in Dante's 'Paradise' of certain questions asked is true of many questions put; to a Court: '\nd lead shall this bo always to thy • feet, To make thee, like a weary man, move slowly Both to the "yes" and "no- thou Most not; For very low among the fools is he Who affirms withcut distinction or denies, As well in one as in the other case. His Honour noted that the quotation was from Longfellow's translation, Canto XIII. lines 112-117.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 4
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177POETRY ON THE BENCH. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 4
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