For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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