"The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs."

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

— Owen Feltham