reason #39103 to like Judge Learned Hand

I have no doubt that if the records of the time of that ancient and apparently earliest of law-givers, Hammurabi, could be completely restored, we should learn that in the third millennium before Christ men were complaining about the inefficiency of legal procedure, and I fancy that if any of you are destined in the year 7000 A.D. to revisit the glimpses of the moon to examine and write a monograph for the celestial choirs upon the condition of human law courts, you will be obliged to report to some Seraphic Commission that mankind still exhibits the same discontentment with its methods of adjusting human differences that you know to-day.

From an address by Judge Learned Hand before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Nov. 17, 1921.