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30 Aug. 1812.
Evidence Inrod
Introd
Ch 15. Preappointed
' Obstacles
Law Offices
No reputation would have be to be got by the possessing no profit by communication of it.
And thus it is that by the same false pretences by which they have gained power and money instead of incurring reproach they have gained respect and reputation likewise.
Fortunate is that system of [...?] to the prosperity of which sagacity and imbecillity are alike conducive. In this fortunate situation is the system of delusion and oppression which has for its authors and actors the manufacture of Judge-made law. The larger the proportion which it contains of falsehood and nonsense, the more [...?] it is for men at large, for all men whose life has not been specially devoted to the truth, in the first place to gain for the regulation of their own conduct that insight into it which every man without exception has so high an interest in the possession of, in the next place to detect the frauds and impostures which have been employed by the manufacturers in the pursuit of their own sinister end. When once men have been supposed to have been deluded to such a pitch of delusion as to have been accustomed to receive not with disgust and indignation, but with complacency and respect lies so gross and nonsense so absurd as coming from any other source would have would have called forth scorn and indignation, in such state of things nothing can come amiss: The grossest absurdity as much good is done to the cause as by the most refined intelligence. It is not in the power of folly to produce any thing nothing can be done or [...?] [...?] done that does not in some way or other contribute to the consuming end.
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Title: [30 Aug. 1812 Evidence Introd]Description: 30 Aug. 1812 Evidence Introd Introd Ch 15 Preappointed Obstacles Law Offices If it had been in the power of falsehood and absurdity to bring into contempt a system of conduct and discourse having for its support power such as that which has been possessed and exercised by the creators and preservers of Judge-made law, it would long ago have shared the fate of alchemy and judicial astrology. But the irresistible power which it has for its support it has been placed far above the danger of being subjected to contempt by the operation of these or any other causes, and in this privileged state, vice its influence has not only not been diminished but has actually been encreased by that mass of falsehood and nonsense by which the credit of any system not thus supported by power would have been utterly destroyed. What must be the power of that workman who has tools that can never be out of order? ne set of workmen, and one only was ever known that was thus fortunate; and his seat is in the Westminster Hall benches.
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Title: [30 Aug. 1812 Evidence Introd]Description: 30 Aug. 1812 Evidence Introd Introd Ch. 15. Preappointed Obstacles. Law Offices The object has been to raise up /erect/ an impenetrable fortress within which the work of profitable mischief might be carried on wih /in/ security. With the admixture of useful sense in the smallest generality this would serve for giving colour to the whole mass, - folly, nonsense, and lies were the materials and the instruments employed in the creation of it of these, under the name of fictions the principal source was rendered by lies: each lie having effected the particular object, got in the money or power for which it was officialy employed, served afterwards in the character of nonsense, to thicken the walls of the edifice and render it more and more impenetrable to every untrained eye. In this way, while the mass of discourse of which the sort of rule of rule of [...?] thus estimated, was rendered more and more unfit for every generally useful purpose, more and more condusive to the private and sinister purpose of its authors, not onlyof power and profit, but reputation likewise. To any public and honest purpose it could not be useful any further than it was understood; to the purpose of the authors such was their felicity, it became useful in jproportion as it was incapable of being understood. To be in the most perfect manner subservient to its public purpose, it would by every body be understood without effort and constantly returned and borne in mind. But in that case, being upon the footing of common conversation, it could not have been the subject matter of any thing that is called science.
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