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 ]_LW_DeDt .... V. B_r3_well /__Q__f 303 U.S. 177, 58
 SeCt. 510_ 82 LoEd.2d 734 (1938) o Nevertheiess_ that a
 legislative declaration of facts appears to be reasonable when
 enacted does not insulate the statute from judicial review.
 Chastleton Co____glai_ 264 UoS. 453_ 44 SoCt. 405_ 68
 L.Ed. 841 (1921); _kbig__S_tat Brv n, 282 UoS. 765, 772_ 51
 S.Ct. 252_ 75 L.Ed. 690 (1931); B_IQ_Qk_3z__Hirch_ 256 U.S° 135,
 154_ 41 S.Ct. 458_ 65 L.Ed. 8655 (1921); _zLi_ed States v
 __Q/_Dg___roducts CQ__, 304 UoSo 144f 153, 58 S.Ct. 778, 82 L.Edo
 1234 (1938).
 As the Court stated in _Tr//A_L_M_____Qr_ii_, 257 U.S. 312_ 337-
 38, 42 SoOt. 124s 66 L.Ed° 254 (1921);
 Classification is the most inveterate of our
 reasoning processes. We can scarcely think
 or speak without consciously or unconsciously
 exercising it. It must therefore obtain in
 and determine legislation . _B]ut it_!jst
 re_aIz_ re_Ll_rese__b_i_es _n__rei_l differenGg_
 betweg_D t_j_L____qlass them_in
 acco]cci_nce w_i_per__ing_n_o__b__
 purp__Qse 9£__h_D__o (Emphasis added.)
 The Supreme Court has recognized that _regulations under the
 police powers although valid or presumed valid when made, may
 become arbitrary and irrational in the light of later events, w'
 _ 1_/ncl_izz_ 264 U.S. 543_ 547-48, 44 SoOt. 405,
 68 L. Ed. 841 (1924). Moreover_ a court is _' . not at liberty
 to shut its eyes to an obvious mistake, when the validity of the
 law depends upon the truth of what is declared_" _., at 547.
 Thus, as the Court stated in _Ili_ed State_t_y_ _aro
 _., s_upra at 153-54 (1938):
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