The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.


The Common Law (1881), p. 1

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it ...

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it ...

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it ...

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it ...