2 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

Punishment

Thus it is, that in every country, to the extent to /in/ which the technical system has been admitted /reigns/ /governs/ /bears sway/, and remains as a compleat /an effectual/ tyranny has been established /organized/ the tyranny of the opulent over the indigent: a sort of partnership tyranny, the profit of which, in an infinite[?] variety of unascertainable proportions, is divided between the oppressor and the contriver of the system, the man of law.

In every system of organization, physical or psychological, a capital principle of efficiency is simplicity. Accordingly in the present instance, nothing can be more simple than the fundamental principle: it consists in more inaction: in the [...?] to apply any check to mendacity in this shape.