14 August 1804

Procedure

False Ends

ch.

'3 Specific Sinister End

It has already been explained in what sense they have one interest in the justice of their decisions: viz: that on this ground their real interest is a good deal divided and perplexed, and that accordingly the view they take of it and the line of conduct taken /pursued/ by them in consequence will naturally be so too, that except in so far as the reality of justice is necessary to produce the appearance of it, it is not their interest that justice should be done: that on the other hand neither is it their interest that justice should not be done: but in so far as they have an immediate interest in a state of things of which frequent injustice is the consequence, in so far as it is their interest that injustice should be done, and not /instead of/ justice.

From this interest they have in the augmentation /diminution/ of the proportion of apparent /real/ justice joined /coupled/ with the interest they have in the diminution /augmentation/ of the proportion of real /apparent/ justice, results the clear interest they have in all those practices /------ practice/ by which the proportion of apparent justice is augmented, especially if by the same means the proportion of real justice be de------.