23 March 1805

Evidence

Security

Ch. Procedure Technical

The powers which under the natural system were necessary to render the domestic /original/ mode applicable to the purpose of public judicature, have already been brought to view. If /Supposing/ the ends of justice to have been the ends of justice /jurisprudence/ judicature, it might naturally have been expected that whatever deviations were made by men of law for their own sinister purposes from the natural system, these necessary powers /additions/ would at any rate have been made to it - made upon a regular plan and to the fullest extent. The picture of /The prospect provided by/ actual law will present a very different prospect. The [...?] /imperfection/ of the technical system will be not less conspicuous by what /the good/ it has left undone than by what /the mischief/ it has done. For bad purposes, infinite activity: for good purposes, negligence and impotence /nothing/.

We have seen those things which we ought not to have done - we have left undone the things which we ought to have done.