| The Path of the Law法律的小路by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.奥利维.温德尔.霍姆斯 爵士 著10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897)哈佛法律评论（10）（总457卷）（1897年）When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We 当我们学习法律时，我们不是在研究神秘，而是在寻求一种永久的职业。are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise 我们正研究着我们想要什么，是想在打官司前咨询法律，还是想远离法庭。people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is a 理由是，法律对于我来说是一种profession, why people will pay lawyers to argue for them or to advise them, is 职业， 人们掏钱向我咨询，或者请我为他们辩护，that in societies like ours the command of the public force is intrusted to the 我们法律人也是社会人，但也谋求因人们的信任，而对案件做出裁判，从而将国家的公共judges in certain cases, and the whole power of the state will be put forth, if 权力向前推进， 如necessary, to carry out their judgments and decrees. People want to know under 果必要，我们法律人将做出裁判和体现神圣。 人们想要知道法律是什么东what circumstances and how far they will run the risk of coming against what is 西，想知道法庭是如何裁判，以及寻求法律人有帮助，是否会获得更大公正，比自己更有so much stronger than themselves, and hence it becomes a business to find out 能耐，所以，对于克服当事人对正义的恐惧，对法律人来说一桩生意。when this danger is to be feared. The object of our study, then, is prediction, 所以，我们研究法律的本质，一是预测法律效果，the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality 一是预测法律人是否利用法庭机构对公众正义施加影响。of the courts. |
