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13 June 1804
Procedure (7)
Ch. Basis
Domestic
The degree of absurdity is not a matter of mere /simple/ indifference to those who profit by it. In /Here/ as in religion, the stronger the dose of absurdity swallowed, thr stronger the proof of the ascendancy gained by the quack at whose insistence it is swallowed /imposter by whose influence men have been brought to swallow it/. In divinity the more absurd /striking to common sense/ the limit, the warmer the attachment of its partizans, but more especially of the chiefs. Why? because the greater the sacrifice, the stronger the devotion to the chief through whose influence it was madee /the more convincing the proof of the strength of the influence through which it was made/: the more absurd /[...?] the more mischievous //pernicious/ the opinion or the practice which a man can bring himself in his youth to view without disapprobation, the stronger the pledge given of his acquiescence in all future time. He who submitts quietly to the grosser imposition, will not be troublesome in his resistance to the less[?]. Upon his shoulders /conscience// understanding/ - upon whatever part of a man the /a/ burthen is imposed the heavier it is [...?] bearing it without [...?] /[...?]/ the more satisfactory the security given for /assurance of/ his submitting with the same resignation to all other burthens if higher pressure. If so long as man bear this /Absurdity, fraud, oppression - whatever it be/, what is there that they will not bear? Men have borne thus much, what should hinder their bearing it to the end /as for evermore/. Let us therefore single out the most flagrant /palpable //undisguisable/ absurdities, the grosser frauds - let us rally- /flock-/ round them and defend them to the last gasp. Let is continue to exhibit /[...?] //as the essence/ as for the essentials /essential features/ of justice, the abuses that are most noxious to it. /+The [...?] the trial, the more decisions the result. The [...?] [...?] has his appropriate /peculiar/ virtue, the law student the Englishman in relation to the tribe of lawyers in his country, another [...?]. The trial of the [...?] [...?] as the [...?] he is capable of enduring without a [...?]. The trial of the British subject consists in the quantity and degree of the fraud and the absurdity and fraud he can swallow without repugnance, when administered to him by the hand of a lawyer, taking it at the same time /all the while/ for probity and wisdom./ Let us continue to maintain, that laws are salutary in proportion as they are unintelligible: that procedure is conducive to justice in proportion as it is vexatious, delatory and expensive: /+That so long as money is to be gained by a [...?] /[...?] [...?]/ an[?] offices of justice should never be tired of writing /telling/ it. that so long as money is to be gained by a [...?] lawyer for scribbling [...?] /suplusage/ an upright Judge will never cease to insist on is being scribbled.
/+Let us call falshood fiction, and make it the basis of all justice:/
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Title: [12 June 1804 Procedure (4)]Description: 12 June 1804 Procedure (4) Ch Basis 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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Title: [1817 Oct. 26 Not Paul Ch. Paul]Description: 1817 Oct. 26 Not Paul Ch. Paul’s Doctrine Doctrine not Paul’s Faith as duty At first sight it may well seem a paradox and that paradox an absurdity and that absurdity a gross one to say / suppose / that in every case the / any / human mind should be so constituted should have been brought into such a state and condition, that the grosser the absurdity of the / a / proposition, the greater the facility it found in obtaining admittance the more eagerly it were / would be / received and the more pertinaciously / obstinately / and inexorably it would be clung to and maintained and defended. This however is no more than the natural and not only the natural but the necessary consequence of a steady and consistent belief in the maxim notion or persuasion of the meritoriousness of faith. For the[?] proof as before. In this temper of mind whatsoever be the mass or portion of discourse in which the tenets or positions which are to be taken for the subjects or objects of the persuasion in question, the mind / invention / is put upon the hunt for the most absurd and extravagant sense―the sense most unconformable / unconnected / to and irreconcileable with experience continual and universal experience that can be found. For / In the pursuit of food for / the gratification of this appetite thus created for absurdity no subject is held sacred: the […?] purposes and decrees of the Almighty are taken in hand, and designs and resolves the most repugnant to all notions / conceptions / of benevolence and justice are ascribed to him.
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Title: [8 Aug. 1815 Jug. True Miracles]Description: 8 Aug. 1815 Jug. True Miracles Wisdom &c shifting sense Mode of treating exact (7) (3) Admirably convenient—not only to the purpose of vengeance but to the purpose of advantage in argument to the purpose of protecting and saving from exposure the grossest absurdity that can be imagined—aye and that with a degree of facility rising in the direct proportion (of the grossness) of the grossness of that absurdity—are these applications of the question-begging principle. Revering constant and unintermetting reverence is the affection the manifestations of which are to be the constant concomitants of every observation of which it is made the subject. But with any such manifestation supposing absurdity in any shape to be attached to the portion of discourse in question, the expression of which absurdity is not consistent: therefore no such exposure ought to be made: it is forbidden on pain of punishment as for blasphemy. Moreover the grosser the absurdity, the more highly and flagrantly inconsistent with all reverence and with all manifestations of reverence is the display and exposure of it: therefore the grosser the absurdity, the more effectually it is by this argument protected against exposure.
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