3 July 1805

Evidence

Introd. Jurisprudential

Ch. sources

4 ''. 3. 1. Decisions

Having a certain degree of affection for your dog (else why should you be at all that /this/ [?] about him?) it is necessity nothing less than necessity, that reconciles you is to so painful a mode of teaching him. Were he as capable of reading a printed definition of the law of theft as he is of framing a martial one, would you have the barbarity of teaching /inhumanity to teach/ the law of theft to your dog in the same barbarous way as that in which so many English lawyers delight to teach it to their fellow creatures? I suppose you a man of common humanity, and therefore as you have neither fees to get by /nor reputation[?] of science to get by drawing or quartering [...?] against the dog, nor praise of many for pardoning him I answer without humiliation for you in the negative.