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.
AliasesOliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.; Oliver Wendell, Jr. Holmes; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr; Oliver Holmes, Jr.; Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.
