19 July 1810 1810 July 19. 6

Fallacies Ch. | | Authority

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| | Lawyers interest sinister

nothing more easy than[?] to forge[?] a law as having been made - nothing more impossible than to make[?] one - one to the [...?] effect, to which it is thus employed[?] to have been made.

The whole weightof their authority will be employed in the endeavour to crush if possible the very idea of /this branch of their sham trade/. The more intimately theu are convinced[?] of the blessings that would result from it, the more loudly will they execrate it as promising the more anxiously they fear the accomplishment of it the more peremptiously[?] they will declare it to be impracticable.

As often as occasion comes, sitting on a judicial bench, to any effect whatever a lawyer will forgo[?] a rule of law, speaking of such pretended law as already in existence. To that same effect propose that in a /any/ determinant form of words a law to that same effect be made, that same lawyer will [...?] in declaring codifying it to be impossible