[Ohiogift] Knowledge Matters (George Eliot)

[Will Fitzhugh]

In my opinion,” said Lydgate, “legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge a of another kind. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice. No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well. A lawyer is no better than an old woman at a post-mortem examination. How is he to know the action of a poison? You might as well say that scanning verse will teach you to scan the potato crops.


George Eliot (1872). Middlemarch, Chapter XVI (p. 87). 
HarperCollins Canada. Kindle Edition. 



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