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interests to be served by the national law, the time for codification 

 of the entire mass of law ought to be far in the future. But the codi- 

 fication of what is known and settled, gradually proceeding piecemeal 

 through the mass, is a different, a feasible, and a desirable thing. 

 This is the turn now being taken. Through the efforts of the American 

 Bar Association and the State Commissions on Uniformity of Legisla- 

 tion, a signal beginning has been made, and the progress is likely to 

 be as rapid as could be expected. 



Except in these two important respects, the history of our law in 

 the future seems destined to develop by the same methods, during 

 the next one hundred years, at any rate, as during the past three 

 centuries. 



