3 June 1804

Procedure. A3 Evidence

Ch. Basis

In this arrangement may be seen, where may be termed /considered as/ the fundamentakl chord in the whole system of procedure /harmony/: it will communicate its cast and colour to all the other arrangements all those others, whither they precede or follow it, will require to be measured /adopted/ and turned /as it were [att...?]/ to it: whither they precede or follow it.

A system of procedure of which this is the basis, may altogether /in the arrangement/ be stated a natural one:- the natural one, for there is but one /no other/there are no more/ for the [...?] of possibility contain no other /furnish not another/: all the others, in endless variety variety[?] of many in contradistinction to them be lumped together under the common name of technical ones. /faced/framed[?] in one part - variety of wretchedness on the other -/ [...?]: which in the dictionary of the English men of law /lawyers/, means /is synonymous to/ ingenious, scientific, wise: in the dictionary of the man of common sense, dishonest and absurd and mischievous /pernicious/: absurd in itself, dishonest in its cause, mischievous in its consequences.