10 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2 Ruling Interests

Here as elsewhere, judging from the known /predominant/ principles of human nature, to predict /for predicting/ what the wish would be, the workman having full powers, or being left to themselves nothing more was /would have been/ necessary, than to observe /consider/ what course, in every part of the business would be most for /favourable to/ their interest, [...?] productive in the greatest degree of their own personal, or (what in this case comes to the same thing) professional and official, profit and /or/ advantage. The state of things /of the results/ by which that advantage /object/ is promoted in the highest degree the description will be very simple

1. That the aggregate mass of profit (Lawyer's profit) extracted from the aggregate mass of suits, carried on within each a given space of time, may be as great as possible.

2. That accordingly the greatest possible quantity of profit be extracted. from each suit.

3. That, of suits capable of being made to yield profit, the number be made as great as possible.

4. That of suits not capable of being made to yield profit the number be made as small as possible: sheer labour, labour without profit, being the only result afforded to the lawyer by suits thus circumstanced.