so bickell talked about ideas, he put it ideas in the middle distance, ideas that only go so far and are held tent thattively -- tentatively and which over time will change as the society evolves. and i thought he was a, that's a very crude way -- i'm putting it very crudely, but he was very sensitive to these changes in the evolution of a society and thought it was desirable. he objected mightily to the warren court which forced evolution in ways that society did not want. bickell was a great man for a lot of reasons, but one was he was just constantly playing with ideas and working them out, and he was very humorous about it. he died when he was 50, which was too bad because he was on his way to, i think, becoming a important political philosopher. see, the kind of thing that's in that book lays the groundwork -- i don't mean i laid the groundwork, but the nature of the tough that's in there -- the stuff that's in there lays the groundwork for political philosophy. law is about ideas. you can't -- when you get an important case, almost any case, you can't go to the library and pick