416 COMPARATIVE LAW 



been trying to adopt from Western civilization whatever seemed to 

 us best fitted for the progress of the country. 



We now possess a Civil Code based upon the most advanced 

 principles of Western jurisprudence. But the code is only a frame- 

 work or skeleton of law. What supplies flesh, blood, and sinews to 

 it is the integrity and learning of the Bench and the Bar and the 

 law-abiding habit of the people. But above all, the fountain-head 

 of legal improvement is legal science. Law is national or territorial, 

 but the science of law is universal, and is not confined within the 

 bounds of any state. We have profited in the past by the work of 

 scientific jurists of the West, and we must look in the future to the 

 mutual assistance and cooperation of the scientific brotherhood of 

 the world. 



