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now ceased to be marked off, have dwindled away, the others still 

 form the centres of integration for the higher members of the 

 legal profession. 



Then we come to the lower members, who in early days be- 

 came incorporated. 



u It was ordained by stat. 4 Henry IV. c. 18, that all attornies should be 

 examined by the justices, and by their discretions their names should be 

 put in a roll: they were to be good and virtuous, and of good fame." 



Other groupings of more modern and less coherent kinds have 

 to be named. There is the Bar Committee, serving as an organ 

 for the practising barristers; and there are the relatively vague 

 unions of barristers who go the same circuits. For solicitors 

 there is in London a central Law Society, along with which may 

 be named Law Societies in leading provincial districts ; and there 

 are also various benevolent associations formed within these 

 larger bodies. 



Nor let us omit to notice how in this case, as in all cases, the 

 process of integration has been accompanied by progress in defi- 

 niteness. Early in its history the body of barristers separated 

 itself by its regulations from the trading community ; and then, 

 more recently, it has increased its distinctness of demarcation by 

 excluding those not adequately instructed. So too, with the body 

 of solicitors. This has fenced itself round by certain regulations 

 respecting admission, conduct, and practice, in such wise that by 

 striking off the rolls those who have not conformed to the rules 

 complete precision is given to the limits of the body. 



And then, as serving to hold together these larger and smaller 

 definitely consolidated aggregates, we have various periodicals 

 several weekly law-journals, and now also a law-quarterly. 



A CURIOUS case of dual consciousness is recorded in the English journal 

 Brain, by Dr. Lewis C. Bruce, late of the Derby Borough Lunatic Asylum. 

 Deterioration is going on in the brain of the patient, but at different rates in 

 the two lobes. Sometimes the right side alone acts ; and then the patient 

 talks Welsh, takes little interest in life, does not care for money or tobacco 

 or for anything but his food, is left-handed, and is almost idiotic. When 

 that side of the brain is inert and the left side is acting, the patient speaks 

 chiefly English, is eager for money and tobacco, being even almost ready 

 to steal them, and is right-handed. For a short interval between these 

 two conditions, he mingles Welsh and English words, uses both hands, 

 and is about halfway active. Of specimens of his handwriting in both 

 stages, the Welsh can hardly be read and goes from right to left, while the 

 English is legible, from left to right, and is generally normal. In either 

 stage he seems to have no knowledge of what has passed in the other. 

 The case seems to suggest that the two sides of the brain may have action 

 independently of one another, and may be organs of communication with 

 the external world of often very different degrees of power. 



