To make it such, however, you must have the
courage to depart from the habitual practice ; you
must dare to put your learning into unlearned
shape, to hazard the sneers of that large class of
lawyers who contemplate law as a phrase rather
than as a fact, and whose notions of knowledge are
limited to its technicalities. You must learn to
disregard such critics. When assured that your
course is the right one, follow it fearlessly, and: rely
upon the common sense of your profession, which
is sure in the long run to prevail, to do justice to
your motives and to attribute your departure from
accustomed form to prudence rather than to
incapacity. As this is one of the forms which
would be far more honoured in the breach than in
the observance, we will tell you how, in our humble
judgment, confirmed by that of some more worthy
ones to whom we have upon occasion hinted our
views, this process of Opening the Pleadings ought
to he performed.
