30 Jan y 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Engl. Proleg.

''. Bad Procedure Causes

4. The boundless made ever increasing immensity /[...?] texture/, and /[...?] texture /situation/ /arrangement/, and unascertainable [...?] and/ consequent incomprehensibility of that system /body/ of institutions the comprehension of which though impossible is artfully and plausibly as well as artfully stated as a necessary preliminary to any attempt to sit in judgment or its fitness /the fitness of it in any part/ in relation to its professed end.

5. The impossibility or the openly declared, and secretly [...?] /continually encreased/ impracticability in this part of all men with a few exceptions in respect of an acquisition with these expressions /arrangements/ of will, for the non-observance of which ignorance is no excuse, is never admitted as an excuse.

6. The nature of the medium through which above any such imperfect instruction /acquaintance with the system/ as is not absolutely[?] unattainable is to be obtained: the [...?] given of it, by a set /class/ of men, who seeing it /[...?] - its as/ /prompted by interest and enabled by power/at [...?] their interest and their power to keep it in as bad a state /short of /distant from/ perfection/ as possible are by the irresistible force of the same interest engaged to represent it as standing as near as possible to the point of absolute perfection and accordingly are never seen to mention of it but with a determination to exaggerate its excellence /good point/ to cancel its defects, and by rendering the one indistinguishable from the other, extinguish in the minds of their pupils and their dupes, the losses, and if possible the very wish to see it in any part, + less adverse than it is to the true ends of justice.

+less pregnant with abuse and misery