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of this country make it easier for the workingmen to care for themselves by pri vate contracts with insurance companies. But in spite of this no European improve ment of the condition of the bread masses can be overlooked entirely in a country which is connected so closely with Europe, where the laborers enjoy very much the new laws created at first by Germany. The most convenient would be for. the American people to go to this European goal in an American way. In the same tendency, which leads you to care for reli gion and science by private activity, you

could collect or simply give funds in order to help the working people in cases of emergency. In projecting the rules for the adminis tration of such funds you could use the experience which has been enjoyed in Ger many and in some other parts of Europe in this matter hitherto. After all, it seems that it is worth while to connect the European science of private law with the American more than has been done up to this moment. I hope to work in this direction as much as possible in the future. NEW YORK, N. Y., May, 1908.