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19 July 1810 1810 July 19 4 Fallacies
19 July 1810 1810 July 19 4

Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshippers

4

. | | Lawyers interest sinister

If a cook were to be punished by dismission[?] for not roasting a leg of mutton which was never /it was known had never been/ ordered, such punishment would in the instance of the [...?]trate be deemed the height of folly: if receiving the order for the purpose of transmitting them to the Cook the [...?] were purposely to suppress them, that[?] the disgrace and dismiss[...?] of the innocent Cook might ensure such fraud would be deemed the very depth of baseness.

Thus whatever security it is the interest of every subject as such to possess to the utmost extent, and at all times, it is the interest of /the f[...?]serity of/ the lawyer that at all times he should possess it to the narrowest extent possible.

It is his interest that he may possess it in such sort and to such extent, as to avoid as much as possible, and were it possible altogether, the misfortune of falling into their hands.

But it is their interest that he should fall into theor, and[?] as often and each time be kept in their hands, as long as possible, while any ransom /money/ which can by their power be extracted from him/.

It is therefore their interest that the knowledge of every thing by the knowledge of which he might be enabled to kepp himself out of their hands (1) may be kept as conspicuously[?] as possible out of his knowledge, and to make sure that to as great an extent as possible (2) all such assemblages or words whereby the knowledge of it might be conveyed to him may be kept out of existence[?], (3) that s often as possible he may be may to suffer for not having complied with commands /ordinances/ which so far from being communicated to him have never been so much as framed and cloathed in words: (4) that as often as possible he may be punished for non-compliance with laws[?] /rules of law/ which never have been in existence: (5) and that in a word, by being kept from coming into existence so otherwise the rate of int[...?] should be as good in extent as possible be kept from coming to his knowledge, lest by knowing that is exists /is/ and what it is, he may save himself from falling into their hands.
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