other recent strong statements 1 would adduce as examples, first O. Prausnitz: I luis the law will alwa\ s rctlect the whole life ot a nation. This is true ot the law in general and of e\ erv department, howe\ er unimportant it mav appear at first sight. One ot these departments is the law of contract, and part ot this is the law ot standardized contracts into which we at present enijuire.'^ 'This is possibly a surprising starement, gi\en the international dimension of commercial law. For medie\ al Spanish law we hax e lyX. \an Kleffens: The history ot a nation's law is a condensed histor\- ot its mores; it describes the unfolding ot its concepts ot w hat is permissible and w hat is not, ot w hat must he done and ot what is merely recommended. I'or a different type of ci\ ilization 1 adduce the distinguished ). P. Reid: Law is the signet ot a people and a people are the product ot the land. Lhe primitixe law ot the eighteenth-century Cdierokee nation reflects the mores, the integrality, and the rapport of the Cdierok.ee people just as the characteristic traits ot the (dierokees themselv es reflect the physical env ironment ot their existence; the mountains from which they lived, the harvest reaped fromforest, field, and stream, and the enemies-hoth in nature and mankindthat their geographical location required them to fight. '' And almost finally, for the modern L.S.A. we ha\ e Lawrence .\L I Viedman's closing statement in his A History of Amcricati l.dzrs It law means an organized system ot social control, any society ot any size and comple.xitv has such a system, and lots ot it. .\s long as the country endures, so will its system ot law, coextensiv e vv ith society itself, reflecting 24 Standardization of Commercial Contracts in English and Continental taw(London, 1937), p.3 25 Hispanic Lawuntil the End of the Middle (Edinburgh, 1968), p. 28. 26 A Lawof Blood: The Primitive Lawof the Cherokee Nation (New York, 1970), p. 3. 27 2d ed. (NewYork, 1985), pp. 694f. 98
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