New Walks in Old Ways 



In fact, I pursued a university course 

 that led to a LL.B. degree, and the 

 Supreme Court let me by with it, and 

 licensed me to practice. But I never 

 did. I consider, of course, that a 

 knowledge of human law is a very 

 interesting and indeed a useful part of 

 one's education. I have never con- 

 sidered that the time I spent on Black- 

 stone's Commentaries and upon Di- 

 gests of Appellate Court decisions and 

 dictums was time wasted. On the 

 contrary, it served to show more 

 clearly than anything else possibly 

 could the impossibility of reconciling 

 so-called personal, property, state, na- 

 tional and international "rights" with 

 human nature and primeval plans. 

 What is sound law in one state, or 

 other man-delimited area of the earth's 

 surface, is rejected entirely, and a 

 diametrically-opposite procedure en- 

 forced in another. 



The study of the civil law seems to 

 lead naturally into politics, and what 

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