13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

What follows? - that, if there be any connection between causes and effects, it is to these causes /circumstances/ more than to all others - more than to all others put together - that we might be lost for the cause of whichever is amiss in that vast body of which the system of procedure forms a part: but more particularly, as will be seen in that part in contradistinction to the other.

And to ------ will this single cause be found to be to the ----- of accounting for the effect that the just cause of wonder will be not so much how it should have /should be/ -------, not that there is so much that will be found amiss - but how it should have happened that any thing should have been right. To committ /---- the interest/ the class of ---- that is of all mankind in their /occasional/ capacity of occasional suitors to the guardianship /management/ of the man of law, would have been exactly the same sort of policy had there been any choice, as the committing of the sheep to the guardianship of the wolf: or rather to a sort of animal who under the outer covering of the faithful guardian /defender/ of the fold, has under the change of circumstances found it necessary to change his nature from the open rapacity /voracity/ of the wolf to the more ---- and artificial /---- and disguised rapacity of the fox.