| At present, in very many cases, if we want to know why a rule of law has taken 现在，我霍姆斯从许多案例中研究发现，如果想知道，法治是如何塑造新的社会形态，its particular shape, and more or less if we want to know why it exists at all, 或者想更加进一步了解，法治是否有本领存续，we go to tradition. We follow it into the Year Books, and perhaps beyond them 我们得思考法律和法律的历史传统。我霍姆斯提醒，法律专业人士应探索法国年鉴，或许to the customs of the Salian Franks, and somewhere in the past, in the German 探索它提示的，沙于连福兰克斯的旧习，或探索过去时代某些地方，如德国森林，forests, in the needs of Norman kings, in the assumptions of a dominant class, 诺曼国王们的法律需求，或探索优势阶级，想利用法律谋求特殊利益的动机，in the absence of generalized ideas, we find out the practical motive for what 我霍姆斯发现，历史法律的推动者，是人民群众和个人怨怼，我们法律专业人士，now best is justified by the mere fact of its acceptance and that men are 自己也最好接受青荷人的儒家家园思想，即怨尤，怨声载道，accustomed to it. The rational study of law is still to a large extent the 人们习惯于国泰平安。全救化的法治理想，很大程度上，study of history. History must be a part of the study, because without it we 是一种法律和法律历史传统。历史哲学是我们法学探索的必要部分，因为没有它，cannot know the precise scope of rules which it is our business to know. It is 我们无法知道，法治的正义是什么，是为资本家服务，还是为人民群众服务。a part of the rational study, because it is the first step toward an 我霍姆斯确实认为，法律和法律传统的探索，是探索法治正义的正确途径，enlightened scepticism, that is, towards a deliberate reconsideration of the 我霍姆斯也欣慰地承认，我们这样向译者青荷人的理想，儒家家园迈进了关键的第一步，worth of those rules. When you get the dragon out of his cave on to the plain 当我们在与大洋彼岸的大中华交流时，我们力图劝进其实施法治，and in the daylight, you can count his teeth and claws, and see just what is 就在于保护我们军事达成的通商航海协议，his strength. But to get him out is only the first step. The next is either to 中华是故国，有力量，我得与之妥协，与之搏斗，力图驯服中华这条巨龙，kill him, or to tame him and make him a useful animal. For the rational study 我们甚至要杀死它，因为它人情冷暖，使之成为全球化的一部分。of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of 我霍姆斯精确地宣布，法治的关键是统治，即美国当世界第一领导人，违者斩，the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. It is 这在未来的世界经济与统计审计中，即利维坦。。revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid 我霍姆斯宣称，法治没有更好的理由，就是统治，即学大中华的中央集权，down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon 我们西方世界亨利四世就实现过，令人快慰。which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists 正议已消失很久了，我霍姆斯也在上位渴望，因为人人都想当好人，正如牧师辛苦劝示from blind imitation of the past. I am thinking of the technical rule as to 的，离开正义我们是瞎子摸象。我霍姆斯一辈子研究法律，trespass ab initio, as it is called, which I attempted to explain in a recent 也是不想临终否定法律的必要性，外人也休想进入法律界，我们都是有怨的人，Massachusetts case.我们就是最近密苏苏里州的一则案中人。 |
