28 March 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Natural

''.11. Advantages

Such is the general outline of the natural system of procedure, the domestic mode rendered applicable to the purposes of public judicature by the addition of the requisite powers, and the enlargement of the scale - the extension of the field of action. In the /several/ succeeding /course/ chapters of this Book, the outline will be filled up, by bringing to view the particular arrangements which constitute the leading features of it. /of which the leading features of it are comprized./

In this natural system, when extended and fortified as above we shall perceive, in proportion as the several arrangements with the advantages, which constitute their respective reasons, are /come to be/ developed, the standard of perfection.

Nor yet /that/ a merely ideal standard, capable of being conceived, incapable of being realized in practice: but a system which actually is realized, in perhaps every country, in an extensive variety of instances, with inevitable success, and might be realized in all others, without any preponderant inconvenience.

Of the advantages belonging to this system, no conception could ever have been formed, still less /nor therefore/ any description given, but for the mischiefs which produced by the deviation that have been made from it. A general and consequently slight but not unimpressive sketch of these deviations will be found in a succeeding chapter under the head of the technical system of procedure.