5 June 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Procedure Natural

The inquiry is now ripe, it may be thought for bringing to view the leading feature say the habitual system at least of the natural system to which the principle of corruption as above explained might have been expected to give birth; call it already for detentions sake, the behavioural system. But first let us /it will be necessary/ to bring to view the correspondent fiction of that very different system (call it the natural system) which [...?] had it not been for the vocation so offered him would have [...?] /produced/ may have produced whensoever his operations have not received disturbance from the overbearing influence of that extraneous and disastrous cause. The course taken, under the [...?] of sinister interest, and in pursuant of the sinister and, being in abberation from the true cause, the course that should have been pursued for the attainment of the legitimate ends of procedure, to shew /work out/ the abberation and shew that it is such and on what degree, we must first work out the standard, the straight course, from and with reference to which the other is an abberation or departure /or deviation/.