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it to define the legal order {Rcchtsordnung) in which law re- 

 sults and for which it exists. 1 The means of attaining - this legal 

 order may vary. They may be command and coercion or reason 

 and justice. But the end has been before men from the begin- 

 ning of legal evolution. By appealing from the particular phase 

 of law which is now current to the universal conception of the 

 legal order, the new school points out the road for future devel- 

 opment in jurisprudence. Law is not an end, but a means. A 

 school which studies it as a social mechanism 2 will do no littic 

 service if it but deliver us from the condition of dry rot which 

 juristic thought has hitherto contracted in periods of enactment 

 and codification, and preserve or restore the juristic ideals of 

 reason and justice, which, for a time, we seem fated to lose or to 

 forget. 



! Kohler, Einfuhrung in die Rechtsrvissenschaft, sec 1. cf. Paulsen, 

 Ethics ( Thilly's Tr. ) , 627. In Kohler we see the historical and the sociological 

 views coming together; in Paulsen the teleological and the sociological, 



2 "A mechanism in the service of the good." Paulsen, I.e. 



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