Note 255 — Chapter II
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"He was solicitous to hear arguments, and not to decide causes without hearing them. And no judge ever profited more by them. No matter whether the subject was new or old; familiar to his thoughts or remote from them; buried under a mass of obsolete learning, or developed for the first time yesterday—whatever was its nature, he courted argument, nay, he demanded it." (Story in Dillon, iii, 377; and see vol. ii, 177-80, of this work.)