16 May 1808

I. Reasons

Ch.V. Advantages

§.9./8./ Fiction ousted

 Here or under Language familiarized.

By the exclusion of these two master instruments of iniquity, nullification and fiction, together with their product, a language in which every imperfection of which language is susceptible - obscurity, ambiguity, and absurdity - have been nursed and matured with equal industry and success, an end would, in Scotland, be put to that degrading bondage, thraldom, in which men of all ranks, the very highest not excepted, are held bound, under a class of men acting under the influence of an interest opposite and irreconcilable to that of the whole nation besides.

See §. │ │ Language familiarized.