This will be a random paper. I would rather give it a title at the end, when I have finished, than at the beginning, before I have started: but if christening must precede development, I will call it ‘Some Reflections on Law and Lawyers’. Though it is well to remember how formidable an essay was in the past concealed under the disarming title of Reflections. In truth, the law seduces men of learning by the variety of its attractions and the specialisation which it encourages may prove, I think, a source of its undoing. We are all experts today; and experts, like kings, may rave, for all that the blows fall thick and fast upon the Achaeans.