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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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