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LEGAL PAPERS

BY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

STANFORD

IB
Ind

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE

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PREFACE

This collection has been made by the kindness of a friend, Mr. Harold J. Laski, and I owe him thanks for gathering these little fragments of my fleece that I have left upon the hedges of life. They are printed as they appeared and I have been unable to do more than run my eye over them, but I am glad to see them put together in a book, as they offer some views of law and life that I have not expressed elsewhere so fully. The place of original publication is given at the head of each paper, and I thank the several publishers for their assent to the reprint.

A later generation has carried on the work that I began nearly half a century ago, and it is a great pleasure to an old warrior who cannot expect to bear arms much longer, that the brilliant young soldiers still give him a place in their councils of war.

June 15, 1920
WASHINGTON, D.C.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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