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12 June 1804 Procedure (4)
12 June 1804

Procedure (4)

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Domestic

' Consequences and causes of the deviations made from the natural and domestic course of procedure.

What would be folly /a rash[?] [...?] madness/ in a family, can never be wisdom in a court of justice.

The Master Mistress of the house when she wants the house-maid to if she wants //wishes for// a fire/ wants the House maid called to light it, little thinks of /prefacing/ does not preface the order with any such supposition /declaration/ of his being at that moment locked up, locked up by nobody and for nothing and the [...?] to [...?] locked up in the coal-hole. If she wants a fire to be made it never enters into his conception to order for dinner[?], she does not send the kitchen maid /her own maid or any maid/ up into the garret to mumble to herself a parcel of dog-Latin or the translation of it, five times in as many days, and ten turn the idea out of doors for not never having heard it

The Master, seeing the foot boy at the other end of the yard, he [...?] the Master call him - does not think it necessary to introduce the commission with any such observation as that That the boy is a vagabond, looking[?] and running up and down the country with an imaginary /at that very time, with an ideal/ vagabond, of the name of Doc.[?]

Exhibited /[...?]/ in the bosom of a family, nonsense and falshood /extravagances/ such as these would not be places to the account of folly, but of madness. Instead of obliging the order, a servant who to common sense added common humanity would run for the physician - as fast as his legs would carry him

Exhibited in the bosom of a family, this would however be exactly could be except in a family which had [...?] for as necessary and conducive to the good order and comfort of the family dinner instead of spinnage[?], would not in any such place be as they are to justice, (for these extravagances are not dreams but near to absurd, so mischievous in a family, as in those /higher //high/ places in which they are every days practice [...?] truth!) I say once more to justice - in the places in which they are exhibited every day under the name of justice.

Take this measure for science, the work of fraud for the work of necessity - every thing will appear advisable - every thing immutable - every thing inexplicable: take it for what it is, /+the work of fraud in confederacy with absurdity/ the illusion [...?] /darkness clears up/. You see what every thing is, and how it came to be so - you have a key[?], and that a sure one, to whatever is obstruse[?] and mysterious in law.

/Person who would act thus must be altogether friendless if they are suffered to go at large./

/If they throw dust into so mans[?] eyes, it was that they might pick their pocket/

/It required nothing less than power, divested /purged/ of shame by the contemplation of its own exuberance, to ground on such preeminence in folly, an assumed preeminence in wisdom. After this what imposture is here[?] that fraud /[...?]/ will not [...?] audacity put forward, and negligence ignirance and imbecility bow down to and adore?/
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