[xxxvi. 167]

1822 July 17

Constitut Code

Corruption and Delusion are necessary concomitants to each other: the same cause /causes/ that produce the one produce the other likewise - the corruption can not exist but the delusion /must/ exists likewise: the delusion can not exist, but the corruption must exist likewise: for it is out of the same matter that both evils are created /engendered/.

Not so Fiction. Without Fiction, corruption and delusion might have done their worst

Fiction it is it is a production of peculiarly English growth. In the Roman Law the word may here and there be seen.