The Apathy Of The Modern

The Condition Of Our Survival In Any But The Meagerest Existence Is Our Willingness To Accommodate Ourselves To The Conflicting Interests Of Others, To Learn To Live In A Social World.

What To An Outsider Will Be No More Than The Vigorous Presentation Of A Conviction, To An Employee May Be The Manifestation Of A Determination Which It Is Not Safe To Thwart.

Right Knows No Boundaries, And Justice No Frontiers; The Brotherhood Of Man Is Not A Domestic Institution.

It Is Of Course True That Any Kind Of Judicial Legislation Is Objectionable On The Score Of The Limited Interests Which A Court Can Represent, Yet There Are Wrongs Which In Fact Legislatures Cannot Be Brought To Take An Interest In, At Least Not Until The Courts Have Acted.

Conservative Political Opinion In America Cleaves To The Tradition Of The Judge As Passive Interpreter, Believing That His Absolute Loyalty To Authoritative Law Is The Price Of His Immunity From Political Pressure And Of The Security Of His Tenure.