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In 1957, during his extended visit at the Harvard Law School, H.L.A. Hart delivered his Holmes lecture, later published under the title Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, in which he sketched a profile of his landmark theory of law. As a listener might have expected, Hart opened his lecture with praise for the jurist and justice after whom the lectureship was named (Hart 1983, 49–50). Holmes will always be regarded in English legal circles as “a heroic figure in jurisprudence,” Hart acknowledged, because he “magically combined” two qualities: clarity and imaginative power. English jurisprudence always prided itself on the former, he maintained, but imaginative power it surely lacked. Like Bentham, who sought “to pluck the mask of Mystery from the face of Jurisprudence” (Bentham 1977, 410), Holmes looked to careful analysis of law and the language used in it to expose fallacies of thought and practice.
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Postema, G.J. (2011). Analytic Jurisprudence Established. In: A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8960-1_1
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