Signor Speranza offers a way out: "If this sounds too extravagant, we may merely require a COMMON methodological approach to all branches of philosophy, which for Grice and Hart was 'linguistic botany' ("if you heard of it," Geary adds, with a biscuit conditional*)." It is precisely that Common Methodological Approach to Philosophy which the esteemed Mr. Speranza suggests as a means of studying Hart as pertains to the role that first principles play in his legal philosophy as promulgated and practiced by him. Indeed it is just such a Common Methodological Approach to Philosophy that I have been developing, yea, these last twenty-three years, and have finally completed. None of the biscuits, I am embarrassed to say, made it through to the logical end. Once my seminal work has been copyrighted I will share it with the list. Omar will be pleased.