Friday, June 3, 2022

Origin of That "Seamless Web" Metaphor

Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.

Frederic William Maitland, Prologue to a History of English Law, 14 Law Quarterly Review 13 (1898). Also: Pollock & Maitland, The History of English Law, 2d ed. (Cambridge, England: University Press, 1898), vol. 1, p. 1

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