13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

Profit, consideration and care. To these head may be reduced the advantages aimed at by all men /individuals/ - and with more particular propensity and approach to all-comprehensive truth, the advantages aimed at by all bodies. These bring advantages aimed at by all bodies, we shall find aimed at with considerable success by lawyers in all civilized countries (in a degree /in truth in a -----/ not very wide or short of those degrees of civilization). But in no country under the sun in so high a degree or in a degree bearing so high a ratio to that of all other civilization, as in England.

has been stated the paradise of : England, if with any such propriety it may be ----- /stated/ a paradise for men, may be ----- a very heaven for lawyers /men of law/. What priest of old time even in Egypt (not to speak of so many other countries) lawyer we will be found to be - to be even to this supposed enlightened hour to England. What priestcraft with its hieroglyphics was in Egypt, lawyercraft with its fictions and technicalities will be found /seen/ to be in England: nor were devotees more unmercifully ridden by priests /by the long-robed cast/ in Egypt, than in England they will be seen to be /found to be in England/ by men of law.