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As soon as you begin to say We have always done things this way -- perhaps that might be a better way, conscious law-making is beginning. As soon as you begin to say We do things this way -- they do things that way -- what is to be done about it? men are beginning to feel towards justice, that resides between the endless jar of right and wrong.

Helen Cam

Helen Cam

Helen Cam

Born: August 22, 1885

Died: February 9, 1968 (aged 82)

Bio: Helen Maud Cam, CBE, FBA was an English historian of the Middle Ages

Known for:

Liberties & communities in medieval England (1944)
England Before Elizabeth (1950)

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