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Ch. | | Authority-gratification

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| | Lawyers interest sinister

'. 1 Lawyers - oppositeness of their interest to the universal interest.

1. The question being, for example, what on such or such a subject ought to be the state of the law, (for on the question what is law the action of interest stands on grounds which exclude it from the scene) the opinions produced in the character of an authority is the opinion of some [...?] who at the time of delivering it or before was engaged in the exercise of the profession of the law, especially of in the character of an Advocate.

Of every man by whom profit and preferment are sought by the exercise of that branch of the profession, the professment and consequently the persuant interest is in the state of direct, constant and altogther inexorable opposition, more particularly in matters called civil to that of the rest of the community. So undeniable is this opposition, and so manifesat to every eye that is not either either by sinister interest or delusive awe and admiration purposely turned aside from it, that without an apology none[?] is ashamed they to maker the existence of it the subject of gr[...?] assertion: and the apology consists in the almost universal propensity among all legel[?] men to turn aside from to whut their eyes against an object which has so high abd so continual a claim to notice on the part of any man who does not take a delight in being deceived to his one injury.