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Fallacies Ch | | Authority-worshippers

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2[?] Lawyers interest sinister

The effect of uncertainty being to throw[?] a man into their hands, and the effect of inconvenience in the shape of delay vexation and expense to keep him thus[?] in proportion to the amount of it to his own detriment and to their advantage, it is interest that throughout the whole field of law the degree or quantity of uncertainty[?], delay vexation and expence be as small as possible: But for the same reason in the instance of every man it is their interest that his share in these evils be as great as possible:

The perfection of oppression [...?] in the shape of extortion is where to the profit and for the benefit of the extortures[?] a man is made to suffer for non-conformity /to/ with /regard/ laws which were never made, and which, lest he should conform to them have been and still are kept from being made not only from being [...?]ied but so much as from being made. Such is the tyranny exercised over[?] all the other members of the community by the fraternity of lawyers.

Propose that the only crime[?] by which the people[?] can be delivered from this tyranny be taken propose that thus[?] throughout the field of law it be rendered possible for men to know and by knowing to conform to those rles for non-conformity to which they are continually afflicted and in so large a proportion /every [...?] in such numbers/ ruined, the impossibility of such deliverance will be conferred and pre[...?]d by the whole fraternity of lawyers.