Jurisprudence and legal theory

The days are past when the study of Jurisprudence used to be regarded as an unnecessary luxury for a practical lawyer. This attitude has now changed and it is being universally recognized that:
"The lawless science of the law,
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances"
cannot be mastered and assimilated except with the aid of juridical science. This recognition of the scientific, didactic and practical importance of Jurisprudence is indeed a promising augury for the future of legal science and for strengthening the Rule of Law in our democracy.
If the Rule of Law on which our Constitution is assuredly based is not to remain a mere pious aspiration and if vitality is to be infused into it, it is absolutely necessary that the light of Jurisprudence should illumine the minds of men and bring about a reorientation of attitudes. Then and only then can we hope, in the words of Lord Tennyson, to:
"Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old;
Ring in the thousand years of peace."