When you take up the problem of the relationship of the law to any aspect to society-and this is especially so when you discuss the relation of the law to commerce-I suppose the first thing that is necessary to do is to negate, at once, the conception that you're just talking about the relation of legal doctrines to that aspect of society. Legal doctrine, by itself, doesn't do much, as we are all aware. Legal doctrine sits upon the books, and as long as it is let sit upon the books by lawyers, just so long it sits upon the books-as during those happy days when what you did in the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice was sit! The lovely Sherman Act just sat-like that I can remember, can't you remember, when there was a fellow who got to be made Attorney General-Harlan Stone, wasn't that his name? Got the notion that the United States was his client and that Alcoa was a monopoly? And they had to kick him upstairs to call him off? It wasn't nice in those days to enforce the Sherman Act, and certainly not against a fellow cabinet member.
