12 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Procedure Technical

One thing to be considered /consideration to be attended to/ in this view, is - that in this, as in other cases, the less the demand for design - the less the necessity of design to the production of the result, the less conclusive is the evidence by which the existence of the design is indicated by the existence of the result. +

For /In/ the production of the leading arrangements - the broad /large/ and characteristic features or feature of the system - such as the exclusion of the parties from the presence of the Judge &c. - and the substitution of the written tract of knowledge to the oral comments and confessions of parties - it can scarcely have happened, that design should have been without a leading share. But these essential points secured, the main end would scarcely be but served by the deepest design, than by accident imbecility and negligence.

Creation thus /once/ accounted for and explained, preservation presents no /not the slightest/ difficulty: in the psychological water[?] /world/, the power of the [...?] inertia is not less mighty than in physical /the than the physical/. Whatever works, under the span of sinister interest, design aided by imbecillity, have been able To erect "set up" habit and prejudice, with the support of the same ever watchful /all-powerful/ interest, care never faced any difficulty in keeping up in fact.

+ question[?] of design and imbecillity produced the result, design and prejudice have enhanced it.