PREFACE.

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Among other reasons which the detractors of Roman Law offer, especially those who, after having sworn uniquely to Natural Law, endeavor to render the so-called Law of the Quirites the ancient civil law of the Romans hateful to the modern world, and to dissuade from it those who are especially engaged in their formative years of study, this one is also brought forward: That Natural Law is of itself sufficient for acquiring absolute erudition in Jurisprudence, and while Natural Law brings forth flowers, Roman Law brings forth only thistles, and is filled mostly with the vain arguments of ancient Jurisconsults.