putting his passion behind his judgment

In this context, we may note the eloquent statement of Benjamin Cardozo who said:

The judge is not a knight errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty and goodness.

11. In this regard, the profound statement of Felix Frankfurter1 is apposite to reproduce:

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guardians-those impersonal convictions that make a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

The learned Judge has further stated:

What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.