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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2025
Dear X,
I take it that an obligation is laid upon me, when you who have honoured me by being my pupil, still further honour me by the following request; which for the benefit of casual readers I will set down at length. You write :—
‘Yesterday I spent the whole afternoon with Mr. Justice Y. He was my master in the Law.
‘He is full of anxiety for the future: for the whole ethical position of Judge, Advocate, Solicitor and Witness. It is quite a new anxiety to him; the fruit of his experience on the Bench, I fancy.
‘It is clear that something must be done by a Master of Ethics. Now as you have been dealing with these matters in St. Thomas during the year, they will be fresh in your mind.
‘Will you be good enough to write an essay on the Ethics of Advocacy? You told us during your lectures on the Sumtna of St. Thomas that you looked to the professions of Law and Medicine by the retention and the restoration of their traditions to save the State.
One of these professions now asks you of your charity to give it back a statement of its tradition and its own ethical ideal.’
I have said that this request honours all too much the one to whom it is addressed. But I need hardly add that it honours still more the one by whom it was addressed. Let me forget my own limitations in an attempt to offer you the intellectual alms you seek.
It is the name you mention in your letter that reassures me against my limitations.