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The world of Philosophy [and the World of]
Law have hitherto been 2 distinct worlds.
"Between us two" might the Philosopher and
the Lawyer say, there is a great gulph
Philosophy nothing more than good common
sense applied to subjects of importance
fixed; so that whoso would &c
2 I have endeavoured to throw a bridge 1 over this
gulph: to this and so that on this bridge it as on Jacob's
Ladder, if not Angels, man however, may
be continually be henceforth seen ascending and
descending.
And if it be a vision, yet still let me indulge in it as a pleasing one
The Lawyer immersed in the [slimy muddy] ocean ditch
of his particulars, too gross an air for a philosopher to breath in scarce dares to think of
mounting to the regions of Philosophy. The
Philosopher delighted and captivated the prospect by his
generals, by the beauties of his ideal world deigns not to descend sink into the [dark gross
atmosphere] world of Law.
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Montesquieu is the first Architect who saw has attempted such a bridge:
the attempted possibility of such a bridge:
He built his bridge but when examined The materials were have been found to be of those of that enchanting sort which are in glitter inchanted castles. Montesquieu was the 1st architect who saw
the possibility of it: he att has attempted it:
He built his bridge but it was of Like Diamonds but not Diamonds built of Marcasite or looking-glass is rather French-paste, brilliant but brittle & soon fading. But his structure neither having any
solid foundation on the shore of Philosophy
nor reaching hence to that of Law, nor
being built of any other than light & crumbling
materials, is unable, as men already
begin already to perceive either to convey men from the one to the other while it lasts. to see & to acknowledge to withstand stem the
tide of time.
Were I I give it him as a power; I enjoin it
I shall shouldduly him as a duty: & it will be more his
duty perhaps than his interest
Were it+ If it be possible possible for one to know it, I should
wish I had never lived, if my carcase
is to be a stumbling block & a stoppage It's fate sentences is pronounced
"Cut it up — why cumbereth it the ground?"
in the career track of improvement reformation.
If the accomplishment of the and of warmest wishes of my life were to be retarded by a false tenderness for the wisher.
Be it actually as much better than I think it, as probably
I think [higher] of it than it deserves,
I would wish nothing to be perpetual in it,
but these my wishes.
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