IN 1916 Roscoe Pound delivered a famous address under the title, The Limits of Effective Legal Action.1 In that address Pound sought to demonstrate to his hearers that the law is not an all-purpose tool, that there are social problems it cannot solve, that the practice of calling out its rough engine in answer to every social alarm can not only damage society, but also may end by destroying the effectiveness of the law itself, even for those tasks for which it is eminently suited. My theme has a