others, and like the common law in some cases, directs itself against that dangerous probability as well as against the completed result."[1]
But it must also be borne in mind that, as trade is carried on for profit, and rarely successfully by the pure altruist, the acquirement of power that offers its owner unlimited opportunities of attaining the object—profit—and satisfying cupidity, but at the expense of the consuming public, needs no additions "to the mere forces of nature to bring that result to pass." "Tendency" has appeared, and with it unlawfulness.
- ↑ Mr. Justice Holmes, 196 U. S. 396 (1905).
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