1. Holmes's infinite perspective sheds light on another one of Holmes's major intellectual influences: Ralph Waldo Emerson. See, e.g., MENAND, supra note 34, at 23-25, 57-59. As Menand points out, Holmes's infinite perspective echoed a passage in Emerson's 1837 essay The American Scholar. Id. at 60. The passage reads as follows;W Oliver;The Use of Law Schools, Speech before the Harvard Law School Association at Harvard University's 250th anniversary,1837
2. highlighting the judiciary's role in launching federal labor-relations policy between the great railroad strikes of 1877 and the Erdman Act of 1898);Gerald G See Generally;THE BEGINNINGS OF FEDERAL STRIKE POLICY,1967