バーク『フランス革命の省察』（46）規矩準繩
And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its defects, redundancies, and errors, is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, as a heap of old exploded errors, would be no longer studied. Personal selfsufficiency and arrogance (the certain attendants upon all those who have never experienced a wisdom greater than their own) would usurp the （そしてまず第一に、人知の誇りである法学の科学は、どれほど欠点、過剰、誤謬（ごびゅう）があろうとも、かつて論破された誤謬の山として、本来の正義の原理と無限に多種多様な人間の懸念を組み合わせた、長年の理性の集積であり、もはや研究されなくなるでしょう。個人の自己満足と傲慢さ（自分より優れた英知を経験したことのないすべての人々に確実に付き纏うもの）が、法廷を簒奪（さんだつ）するでしょう）― cf. 半澤訳、 p. 121 Of course no certain laws, establishing invariable grounds of hope and fear, would keep the actions of men in a certain course, or direct them to a certain end. Nothing stable in the modes of holding property or exercising function could form a solid ground on which any parent could speculate in the education...