10 May 1805

Evidence Introd

Introd

Ch 8. Application

' /Ch./ Application of the above principles to existing /actually established/ law.

Hitherto we have been floating in the atmosphere of theory: a /one/ step more, and we are set down in practice /are landed safe in practice/ and we find ourselves safe landed on the terra fima of practice.

In the above catalogue of the ends - the legitimate ends, of procedure - if the items be rightly chosen and the catalogue compleat, we possess an instrument by which the fitness of any established system of procedure may be [...?] without much difficulty, in all its parts and ingredients.

By what name shall we call our instrument /be called/: by what metaphor (for without metaphor psychology has no language) shall we describe it? /it be described?/

Is it a test? what system, of the systems in existence, shall abide it? Put into it any one of them, volume volume after volume fly off in gas or [...?] in service.

Is it a spear like that of Ithariel[?]? Touch with it Doctor after Doctor, Seraphic or Angelic, the robe /cloak/ flies off, the Devil stands confessed.

Test or spear, experiments will be made with it, in convenient abundance, as we advance.