13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. Ends (of the Technical)

Seek Ye, said Jesus christ /saith Jesus/, seek ye the kingdom of heaven and his /its/ righteousness, and all these things (no matter to the present purpose what things, +) shall be added unto you: a precept which if delivered in modern times and in the language of modern times might have run thus. Honesty is the best policy: or thus: the rules of privity are also rules of prudence.

The converse of this precept might have served in the shape of an instruction to the man of law. For kingdom of heaven put /read/ mammon or any other opposite kingdom, for righteousness, unrighteousness or more specifically extortion. Seek ye what is your direct, your primary object the kingdom of mammon (or in the rougher language of the century before the last the kingdom of hell and its unrighteousness (the unrighteousness that leads to it) and your secondary, your collateral object, ease, shall be added unto you.

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