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This chapter focuses on H. L. A. Hart's successful career, which had reached its pinnacle with a remarkable list of achievements behind him, and at this point he was still a decade away from the Oxford retirement age of 67. Hart was set for a period of flourishing intellectual creativity in which he would continue to shape the field of English jurisprudence which he already dominated. Beyond Oxford, Hart continued to shape his field through active soliciting of manuscripts for the Clarendon Series. He was reaching a wide academic audience with his publications. In spite of his resolution while in Israel to counter his increasing sense of fatigue by travelling less, he was making frequent trips to lecture at other universities in Britain and abroad. And he was addressing a broader audience through his lecturing and broadcasting on criminal law reform and the abolition of capital punishment.

Bentham's Of Laws in General is a remarkable work with a remarkable history. This chapter provides a brief mention of the salient features of the story. Of Laws in General is in fact a continuation of Bentham's best-known work An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. The latter work was printed in 1780 but its publication was held back by Bentham for nine years. This chapter expounds the main features of this extraordinary work. Its originality and power certainly make it the greatest of Bentham's contributions to analytical jurisprudence, and this chapter states that it is clear that, had it been published in his lifetime, it, rather than John Austin's later and obviously derivative work, would have dominated English jurisprudence, and that analytical jurisprudence, not only in England, would have advanced far more rapidly and branched out in more fertile ways than it has since Bentham's days.

The class of words most likely to be overlooked in a title is the preposition. While this chapter briefly touches on of, as well as to and for, as examples of the mighty unsung and inversely proportional work that prepositions do in language, the focus in this chapter is on the cognitive contribution of the little word in. The chapter posits that an English language convention arose, and now has largely fallen out of use, for dealing with the formidable, yet beautiful, complexity of the meaning of property. The burden of the argument is to show that while this convention lasted for only 500 years, less than 1% of the time our modern species has roamed the planet, it provides an insight into how humans universally and uniquely cognize property. And the argument is this: Humans locate the meaning of property within a thing. Property is contained within the thing.