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cover many concepts more or less allied. It may mean what is commonly spoken of as public policy, the good of the collective body. In such cases, its demands are often those of mere expediency or prudence. It may mean on the other hand the social gain that is wrought by adherence to the standards of right conduct, which find expression in the mores of the community. In such cases, its demands are those of religion or of ethics or of the social sense of justice, whether formulated in creed or system, or immanent in the common mind. One does not readily find a single term to cover these and kindred aims which shade off into one another by imperceptible gradations. Perhaps we might fall back with Kohler^[1] and Brütt^[2] and Berolzheimer^[3] on the indefinable, but comprehensive something known as Kultur, if recent history bad not discredited it and threatened odium for

1. Enzyklopadie, Bd. 1, D. 10; Philosophy of Law, 12 Modern Legal Philosophy Series, p. 58.
2. Supra, p. 133, et seq.
3. “System des Rechts und Wirthschaftsphilosophie," Bd. 3, 9. 28.