Oliver Wendell Holmes – Stretching Man’s Mind

Posted on December 26, 2013 by weblogbahamas

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4 Responses to Oliver Wendell Holmes – Stretching Man’s Mind

  1. S3S's avatar S3S says:
    December 27, 2013 at 6:00 am

    It is my sincere hope that our political classes will visit this Blogsite from time to time and read the various posts that surely would ‘stretch their minds with new ideas’ …. Lord knows they need it!

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  2. The Oracle's avatar The Oracle says:
    December 27, 2013 at 11:44 am

    That is bound to be painful, not much except credibility gets stretched in their world!

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  3. Overtaxed's avatar Overtaxed says:
    December 27, 2013 at 11:52 am

    Unfortunately it seems their minds have been stretched by bad ideas never to return to common sense,every one of them.

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  4. Tradewinds's avatar Tradewinds says:
    December 27, 2013 at 12:36 pm

    The brilliance and genius of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his scholarly contribution to the American Intelligentsia is worthy of a lifetime of study..
    In contrast his more famous son, Oliver Wendell Homes Jr., Chief Justice of the United States during Roosevelt’s New Deal era gave America the judicial idea that the Constitution of the United States was an ongoing “Experiment” rejecting the ideal of what is known to legal scholars as “Strict Interpretation” of constitutional meaning and law.. He became leading jurist of the progressive (liberal) movement, supported an organic constitution, accepted the packing of the Supreme Court and even today is the ultimate source of the liberal school of legal thinking..
    What a difference a single generation can make in intellectual thinking and development that was to change the political philosophy and direction of the American Republic..

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