29 April 1807

9

Lawyers judged

Letter 1

On this occasion, as on every other, to the rendering whether in the way of execution or suggestion by the /in/ exercise of the intellectual faculty, any useful service, the union of two conditions /two conditions/ the will and the power are indispensable, viz: the will /inclination/ and the power - the inclination and the ability. On this present occasion in question neither of the conditions /[...?]/ appear to me as being present /possessed/ by either of the contending parties: the observations I shall have to submitt to you, my friends will bear [...?] [...?] but it will rest with you to judge

In fact in the present instance, the disstinction is not much more than [...?] /it is with laws, as with shoes: never to/ not to have had the will is not to have the power to make them good /fit for use/.

/+in the making of good laws as in th making of good shoes it/