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1820 Sept. 11 19.
To Mora

The people As to Codification, the people at large
are not capable of understanding what services I would in
this way render them: they could do so not have any such understanding any further than as
they understood the abominations of the law: and to every man eye
but a lawyer's the those abominations is are unfathomable. The
Lawyers understand but too well the service I could render
the people: they understand but too well, that so far as regards
the rendering the rule of action real not imaginary
accessible and intelligible, and the judicial establishment and
system of procedure conducive to the ends of justice, the interest
of the other classes of the community could not be served but in
proportion as the sinister particular interests of the lawyer tribe
were detrimental. Even were their their profits uninjured, the
wound to their pride would suffice to render them in the highest
degree averse and and adverse. By a code which had nothing
in common with theirs, and which would be no scarel scarcely less intelligible
to any man who could read and write than to themselves,
all the stock of law learning which it had cost them so much time and labour to lay
in would at once be rendered useless, and all the reputation,
esteem, and respect and confidence that had been placed in
it tumbled at once to the ground. Reason being In As to Reason, in proportion
as Reason or against lawyers, lawyers of course can not but be against Reason.
I should give nothing not give any thing without reasons: they, Lawyers, any more than despots in chief would not endure
to do any thing with reasons: so many reasons, so
many claims to those Napoleon instruments their despotic hand, , or
generosity, rendered Napoleons instruments laws legislative Scribes civil to me in
their preface to his codes. But as to reasons, – reasons applied to each arrangement in detail – this was never
been certainly more than they have been durst give, some will
add – or knew how to give. Finding themselves hard pressed by the
reason-requiring principle, by way of by way of a substitute to a my perpetual
commentary of reasons, they gave a mass of vague generalities in the form of a at the commencement, in the of their prefaces. The same course, in spite of all that
Dumont could say to them, the Geneva aristocrats obliged him to take.
Would you guess the their reason for this? reasons would make the text of
the law dry . Le texte d'un code de loix n'a rien de sec in
lui-menu: en le rondroit
tel, en y ajoittant des ruisons.
Such was their taste.

Identifier: | JB/013/221/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field	to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	jeremy bentham	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	draft of letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4670
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