18 June 1804

Procedure

Ends

Ch. False

' 2. Emolument

In the government of ancient times, to display this corruption with which the fountains of justice were impregnated, from the first ages to the last, would be a task far beyond the bounds of this work. In a work of Pilate's it is already executed, executed with a sagacity adequate to the subject, valuous[?] to the profession, and superior to the time.

In this time a branch of observation less [...?], and less public and still more foolish, is presented by English jurisprudence. To that therefore, on the occasion of the present chapter I shall confine myself. On this ground, at any given stage of civilisation, the history of a Monarch, is with little [...?] the history of all Monarchs: the history of one of set of lawyers: the history of all lawyers.

To the true lover of mankind, the outrageous and almost exclusive domination of the self-regarding and different[?] attractions[?], is matter not of lamentation but delight, when he observes the originally hopeless encroachments, that by degrees, however slow degrees, have at length been made upon them by the social. Out of self-regarding interest, the parent stock - affections grew, assuming one independent character under the name of sympathy. Connected with the parent stock by a film invisible to the conscious eye, and at length perhaps detached from it altogether, they act with a force of their own in the judgement and the will, though naturally and most commonly in alliance with the parent interest. Hearing justice praised by any body, and spoken ill of by none, a man whenever he is not particularly hurt by justice, loves whatever he hears called by that name, whether of the service he is at every moment of his life deserving from it any part be or be not present to his mind.