10 Apr. 1803

Evidence

Connection

Introd.

Ch. 2

part is not contained /included/ in the part now /thus/ posted off, will be submitted to the reader in this place. /included in the ensuing pages of this work./ In the part here exhibited will be comprized the whole of the speculative matter which I have to deliver relative to this subject. To the subject of Procedure will be referred the principal share of that part which is of a practical cast /complexion/ - which wears a practical complection upon the face of it.

On /It is on/ the subject of Procedure /that/ occasion will present itself for speaking of the various steps that require /come[?]/ to be taken in that intricate career in pursuit of the progress towards the main end or object which is at the end of it. Among these steps will be several bearing a manifest relation to the subject of evidence! But if all rules and suggestions which take upon them to point out the steps proper to be taken on any occasion, the complection is plainly practical. It is because /But the designation of/ the practical suggestions relative to the steps proper to be taken on the subject of procedure will be found necessarily intermixed and intimately blended with the designation of the steps relative to other points comprized within the field of procedure: at the same time that the speculative matter /considerations/ necessary for the elucidation of the subject will be found to have no immediate application to those practical suggestions, or to the steps which are respectively the subjects of them. From these circumstances /considerations/ result those views of convenience by which the division thus made of the subject between the two[?] treatise /works/ has been prescribed.