Note 62 — Chapter XXII · THE MORTALITY OF SOCRATES

[It may be remarked that, according to The Times of December 20, 1917, Mr. Justice Sargant, in the Chancery Division, also held that “the law did not recognize fractions of a day,” and that Lord Blackburn, in his decision (9 App. Cas., 371, 373) that a man born on the thirteenth of May 1853 attained the age of twenty-one on the thirteenth of May 1874 “was not speaking strictly.”—Ed.]