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When a man does distinguish himself in this life, he
is subjected to comparison with other men who have contrib­
uted or have distinguished themselves in that same field.
Having achieved excellence in many different disciplines,
Emilio Rabasa has been compared to many great and distin­
guished men. He began his career as a novelist; because his
novels established literary realism in Mexico, he has been
called the Perez Galdos of Mexico. For his distinguished
work as a law theorist, he was often compared to the French-
li
man Montesquieu, and is still widely recognized as the final
authority on many points of Constitutional Law in Mexico.
For his interest in the Supreme Court and the Judicial Branch
of the government and his defense of this system of govern­
ment, he has been compared with that great defender of the
courts in the United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes.^
The eminent Mexican critic Emmanuel Carballo ex­
pressed the thought that too many times the Mexican
historians and critics have been unable to achieve the
necessary impartiality to do an unbiased study of Mexican