8 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Natural

'.12. Exemplified a Summary[?]

When perfection is /no name is/ spoken of, at least as being the result of human agency, then the mind[?] prepares itself of course for a journey to the region of non-entities: it looks to /for/ /figures to itself/ a state of things which either never existed at all, or has long ceased to exist, and at any rate neither will nor can exist in time future: [...?] the golden age, the age where Man received life, from the work of Prometheus, from the song of [...?] as from the chisel of [...?]/

Learned or unlearned, what /how/ will the [...?] say to himself at hearing /what will a man's [...?] be when he reads/, that in this most difficult department /branch/ of the most difficult science, the image of perfection is /examples of perfection are/ already and every where, before his eyes!

Happily for mankind, exemplifications of this perfection, though thinly scattered, and cramped in their extent, are still to be found every where. With all /Mark of/ their industry, backed by all their power, lawyers have in no country been able to obliterate altogether the footsteps of justice.

In the jurisprudence of every country you find a distinction applied /applying itself/ to modes of procedure, and expressed by some such terms as regular and summary. Under the head of summary, look for an exemplification of the natural system of procedure as above described. To this head belong for example in ci-[...?] France, the mode in use in what are called the Consular Courts.

In England - 1. The Courts held by Justices of Peace, acting singly, or though in number of one of [...?]. 2. Courts Martial. 3. Courts called Courts of Conscience for the recovery of small debts. 4. courts composed of Arbitrators acting under /with/ powers given by consent of parties under the authority of an Act of Parliament. +

+ V.b. 3. Ch.

 Add. 1. [...?] [...?].

2. Branch[?] Constitution Courts.