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. 3. Lawyers untrustworthy

But two natural sources[?] it may be in the sense that thw makers of punishment should make it for their own use it is not natural in any sense that they should make it for any such purpose as that of being applied to their owb necks, their own backs or their own purses.

Many accordingly are the instances in which a bad law maker has a manner above mentioned been by a renowned[?] or learned confederate been [...?] trumpeted forth as a good one, none in which, how severe soever the damage an indictment has been preferred is so much as an action brought as and for such trumpeting.

Unlicenced astrologers /deliverers of predictions/, unlicenced character-givers /givers of characters/ all sink under the irresistable weight and authority of the only limited ones.

By any of these character-givers is any character ever given of any learned person /such learned manufacturer/ as of one who if he knew what he was about would willingly be convinced in making any such portion of law as should be simple certain and intelligible - of framers any such rule of procedure as should be conducive to the reducing of the stock of factitious delay vexation and expence in this evidence were there no other he might without injustice be set down and recorded as convicted upon view of /of that species of fraud which consists takes the shape of/ the offence of false character-giving.
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    3. It is their interest that whatever be the absurdity of the articles in question it is their interest that as many persons as jointly with themselves have been in the habit of professing a belief in them should continue in that same habit, as also that as many more should engage in it as possible, and their interest in this repsect is the stronger, the more flagrant and palpable that absurdity, the stronger and more urgent is that interest. For the greater the number of those who in appearance join with themselves in the same belief the greater is the number who join with them in delivering [...?] for the benefit of himself and the rest a sort of evidence /circumstantial wisdom, such as is delivered by authority /it is in the nature of authority to deliver//, registering the imputation of absurdity, and who at any rate stand precluded each of them from joining in the casting of any such imputation upon the rest.