4 June 1804

Evidence

1

Enquiry Mode

Ch.5. Objective 3. Impracticability

It is a maxim among lawyers, and I have found the most honourable and best respected as strongly impregnated with it as the hard can be, that a non lawyer a suitor is universally and radically incapable of understanding /[...?]/ his own business. The propsition is but too near the truth /has but too much truth in it:/ but the incapacity /but the fact/, whose wish is it? Not the work of nature, but /nature's but/ the work of the very class of men who plead it: they stop a mans /blow dust into mans //stuff a mans ///our/ eyes with dust, and then laugh him to scorn for being blind /insult him with the reproach of blindness/. Like astrologers they scrape together /make up //manufacture a/ a sham /gibberish/ science, composed /made up/ of falshood /lies/ and nonsense: and possessing the monopoly of their own produce, they add insult to depridation reproaching their fellow subjects for their ignorance: for their ignorance? of what? of a jargon which power alone indeed will [...?] can cover from contempt, but nothing but that ignorance and the imposture grounded in it, could ever have covered /screened/ from natural abhorences /unusual [...?] and abhorences/ //wants only to be known to/ be covered with /turned from/ abhorences//.