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ment as the reorganization of our courts. Perhaps if the 
federal courts would adopt the modern English legal pro- 
cedure, pursuant to power conferred upon them by Congress, 
the various states might one by one follow the example of 
the federal government. 
The Future. What is going to be the future development 
of Anglo-American Law? Will there be further growth in 
the present Period of Socialization? Will this period be fol- 
lowed by another period, and if so what will be the nature of 
it? Is the legal pendulum going to continue to swing back 
and forth from the side of reaction to progress? These and 
many other questions will have to remain unanswered. 
The answer to what the student and others interested in 
the improvement of the law should do is not so difficult. In 
the future such men must study the behavior of men as well 
as the law chronicles of the centuries. Legal scholarship 
must show less devotion to logic and more devotion to social 
reality. It must attempt to get under and behind the ap- 
plicable legal rule and illuminate it by a study of the particular 
social and economic phenomena it purports to control. It 
must enlist the cooperation of economist, sociologist, political 
scientist, and philosopher. The forward-looking scholar who 
has searched for the historical bases of our law will not take 
up arms against certainty and predictability as certainty and 
predictability, but he will insist that certain and predictable 
rules shall work well here and now in the social world in which 
we live and that justice shall not be sacrificed on the altar of 
logic. 
