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There are many recognized rules of customary law the operativeness of which is challenged by this or that writer because they offend his sense of what is right and proper.

From The Future of International Law by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

So long as this operativeness is admitted to be real, it makes no essential difference whether its immediate effects be subjective or objective.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William