Cardozo in context

David Gruning (Loyola-New Orleans) points out in a Comment that yesterday’s quote from Judge Cardozo was taken somewhat out of context.   He notes that the quoted sentence precedes the following:

A definition of law which in effect denies the possibility of law since it denies the possibility of rules of general operation must contain within itself the seeds of fallacy and error.  Analysis is useless if it destroys what it is intended to explain.  Law and obedience to law are facts confirmed every day to us all in our experience of life.  If the result of a definition is to make them seem to be illusions, so much the worse for the definition; we must enlarge it till it is broad enough to answer to realities.”  Nature of the Judicial Process, p 126-27.