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them than either to have them performed
gratuitously, or be contented with
such functionaries as can be procured for
two hundred pounds a year". From this
it seems as if I what I had said
in that article or in some letter of mine
was to express a wish that the salaries in
question should be reduced from the present
eight hundred be reduced to two hundred.
I would be meant not nor do I mean
to express any such wish with regard to
the salaries attached to the situations in
question not even as applied to successor,
with much less as applied to the present incumbent:
for this last would in my judgment
be an altogether unjustifiable infringement
of what I have stated as the fundamental
principle of the law of property –
namely
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namely the disappointment preventing principle:
a principle from which all the fixt rules belonging
to it may be deduced with the exception
of those variable ones which belong to the
art and science of political economy.
If any such sum as two hundred a year
was mentioned by me the of the the
subject matter to which it was meant to
bear reference was a very different one, namely
a supposed Judicial Establishment under
which for the first time it should be made possible to imagine
to be adequately informed of the rule of action
in which everything done to him
depends and which to more will be in any county so low
as the fraternity of lawyers in that county
can prevent or any more than all other
men would be kept for remain to the day of their death even in good health
without medical attendance if the medical
fraternity could prevent it.
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