A collection of short works, the first, "The Altruist in Politics," being a commencement address at Columbia College by Benjamin Cordoza, well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. The second is "The Path of the Law," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. The third is "The Debs Decision" by Scott Nearing, American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist.