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| | Universities 1. Virtue

Virtue Universities

If [...?] be good work[?] every men soever be the pleads[?] [...?].

At the time of that ceremony which in the metaphorical language of the place is called matriculation, the ceremony in the performance of which the youth becomes a Member of /limb/ the Kind Mother a body of laws constituting a closely printed 12\T oT\ volume is put into his hand, and at the same time an oath is administered to him by which he binds himself /he is made/ /a form of words is put into his mouth and repeated by him/ /under the sanction of an oath he is understood to bind himself/

to observance to be paid without exception to every particle of law contained in it.

Of this Oath the violation is constant, universal and notorious. (a)

True it is that of the great bulk of the ordinances thus violated nothing can exceed the frivolousness: nothing consequently the innoxiousness of the acts by which the violation of them is performed /committed/ /accomplished/. But be the importance of the transgressions themselves ever so great ever so inconsiderable, this sanction employed to enforce observance, the sanction violated by unobservance is still the same.

Murder is an atrocious deed going abroad without having put under the drive[?] a piece of lawn[?] called a band is an insignificant omission: but if a promise be given not to either of those acts, and in the evading of past promise the ceremony employed is the same, and that ceremony /the ceremony[?]/ is called an

oath

or the taking of law oath, if that oath be violated, perjury is committed, and so far as concerns the ceremony, the [...?]ch [...?]ld the violation of it the perjury, is the same /the impiety[?]/.

(a) Note stating some of the instances