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HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
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the infinite. It often is a merit of an ideal to be unattainable. Its being so keeps forever before us something more to be done, and saves us from the ennui of a monotonous perfection. At the least it glorifies dull details, and uplifts and sustains weary years of toil with George Herbert's often quoted but ever inspiring verse:

"Who sweeps a room as in Thy cause,
Makes that and the action fine."