The science of philology, on the meaning and
history of words began the concept of a natural development of
languages which conflicted with the theological view that God had
created all the different languages when he punished man for
trying to build an edifice to heaven by destroying the Tower of
Babel and dispersing the people into all parts of the world with
different languages derived from the original: Hebrew, so that
they could not communicate with each other. The science of geology
developed the concept of tremendous changes in the earth's surface
which altered horizontal layers of deposits, in which there were
fossils, which challenged the biblical notion of a world and all
its animals created in a week. In 1784, Lord Henry Cavendish
proved that the sole result of mixing hydrogen with oxygen was
water, thus disproving the theory of the four elements of air,
earth, fire, and water. In the United States, there was no king, a
separation of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial; a
separation of church and state, and no aristocratic titles.
In this time period the development of law includes abandonment of
common law crimes such as seditious libel in the United States,
negligence and duty of due care in the United States replacing the
English strict liability for torts, substitution of the caveat
emptor doctrine for the English sound price doctrine in contract
law in the United States, truth as a defense to charge of libel in
the United States, repeal in England of seven year requirement for
apprentices in 1814, married women's property acts beginning 1839:
(1.
Pages:
1061
1062
1063
1064
1065
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
1073
1074
1075
1076
1077
1078
1079
1080
1081
1082
1083
1084
1085