6 Aug. 1804

Procedure

Ch. non-homologation

Import uncertain

/Thus/ In this way it is that in the way of jurisprudential law dogs may be taught /made to learn/ and are made to have accordingly the definition of theft, as well as of various other forbidden sorts of acts. And not only may any /each/ given dog be made in this way to learn what is called by /in the language of/ English lawyers is called common law by what has been acted and found to what has been suffered by himself, but one /any one/ /each/ dog though in a manner not quick to improvise may learn a lesson to the same effect by the observation of what has been acted and suffered by another /a fellow/ dog.

Thus far the same sort of law jurisprudential law serves alike for dog and man. Another step and /At the next step/ the path divides and man has somewhat the advantage. Man has learnt /found recourse to learn/ not only to speak but even in process of time, in some countries to write /even to read and write/. In this state of things /stage of society/ should it happen to any man to have committed to writing description more or less accurate and compleat of the cases the individual cases in which this and that man after acting in any /this or that/ branch of delinquency has been in consideration [...?] made to suffer by this or that mode of punishment, it will thus have been rendered possible pro tanto fora man to learn to abstain from that /those acts/ for which he is liable to be punished - to abstain from them in consequence of the having read what has been thus written - to abstain from them without having been previously punished for not having obtained abstaining from them, or so much as seeing any other man punished for the same cause.