Andrew, I understood Frank to suggest that the fear referred to man's inability to control his environment - and to do so through the empirical techniques he knows: namely reason, experience, etc. I think that this fear exists with regard to human nature which is itself not subject to what Frank suggests is "primitive science." To that extent, I don't know that what human subjectivity (if I am correctly understanding your use of it) is so separate from the threat of perjury - rather that the very fact that litigation is centered largely around human actors brings this sense of "magic" TextDiscussionCohenandFrank into the courtroom.

-- CarinaWallance - 30 Jan 2008