3 March 1804

Evidence

Ch. Reform Objections: Lawyers

What it has /is/been in the power of competition to do for us in the way it has affected - the decent administration of a system radically bad in many /several/ of its essential features. What it is not in the power of do for us, remains undone: the correction /improvement/ of that bad system by the extirpation of the bad features - the extension - for little, if anything /of such of its features as are thus [...?] bad, together with very little/, is extension of such good features as are already exemplified and in existence: the steady contemplation and in steady pursuit of he end in view: the /a/ deration[?] of all measures - of all arrangements of detail to that are[?] and or connected and consistent cluster /constellation/ of ends: and above all the utter extirpation of licenced mendacity in all its shapes as being in all its shapes the irreconcilable adversary to whoever and whatever and[?] whoever is directed to that end.