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of a state law for sterilizing imbeciles the other day,” he wrote Laski, “and felt that I was getting near to the first principle of real reform.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, May 12, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935]'', Volume 2 (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 942 (PDF p. 141)</ref> As his biographer Sheldon Novick comments, Holmes “in personal letters seemed to espouse a kind of fascist ideology.”<ref>Sheldon M. Novick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JhPYAAAAMAAJ Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes]'' (New York: Dell Publishing, 1990) ISBN 0440503256, p. xvii</ref>

of a state law for sterilizing imbeciles the other day,” he wrote Laski, “and felt that I was getting near to the first principle of real reform.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, May 12, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935]'', Volume 2 (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 942 (PDF p. 141)</ref> As his biographer Sheldon Novick comments, Holmes “in personal letters seemed to espouse a kind of fascist ideology.”<ref>Sheldon M. Novick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=JhPYAAAAMAAJ Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes]'' (New York: Dell Publishing, 1990) ISBN 0440503256, p. xvii</ref>

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