"Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience."
"Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law."
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Source: Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
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