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THE GREEN BAG

been met — by a professional class who have thought for him, preserved the traditions of his class, and perhaps his family, from generation to generation, and whose ideal is perfection and care of detail. Genera tions of dealing between the two has devel oped a condition where the one furnishes that which is dictated by the experiments and mistakes of the past, and the other submits its own wishes to the dictates of the former. Both, in their way, worship at the shrine of evolutionary perfection. The

result is that the testator obtains not what he thinks he wants, nor what his solicitor thinks is best for him, but what generations of a trained, experienced, and skillful pro fessional class have discovered is best. With a will drawn according to the ideal which has been thus wrought out, the question of testamentary disposition may in most cases safely be dismissed by the testator from his mind during the remainder of his life. Chicago, III., March, 1907.