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 economic data as well as the legal and we must find out how these laws work so as to profit by the experience of others. This is no small task. It is a far greater problem than that of building up a law library or gathering jurisprudence of the past.

Professor Ernst Freund in a recent pamphlet upon "Legislation and Jurisprudence" says:—

What is needed is a body of jurisprudence or quasi-jurisprudence—the formation of a body of principles directly relating to the whole subject of statute law. The judge goes into the law library and finds the classified law and jurisprudence of the past; the legislator comes for a few months every year to make laws with no such data at his command.