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mode of reforms, but as being a reform: that is an
enterprize which requires the sacrifice of
particular interests and particul prejudices founded on those interests
to the interests of the whole.
A not unsuitable accompaniment to this last
will be a discourse on the Advancement
of Jurisprudence: not with any reference to the particular plan here offerd A discourse proper documents towards the formation of such a plan from other quarters, supposing this which is here offerd should not meet with approbation. A discourse on the means of of procuring that benefit to
the science, not which is seen looked for in
the plan here offerd as contradictent
from others, but that which by means of
proper encouragements is to be hoped for
from the best plan any plan that shall be found, whatsoever that may be
On the conduct to be observed by those whom it may in their endeavours for
procuring such a plan.
Of neither party — The Bat among the
Birds and Beasts.
The consequence is that I may justly reasonably look for
the .. of the enthusiasts of both.
[PRE]FACE.
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or dem. of happin.
DR.8.
My great aim throughout has been to lay myself
sentiments as open as possible: to that the public
may in some way or other profit through
my means, by my errors, if not by my
successes, by my errors.
To dissipate as much as possible in me lies, that cloud
of mystery which through the unskilfulness of
some and the little petty vanity of others has
gatherd thickens gathers about around this as around every other
sciences:around the sciences.
Accordingly those who may think it worth their while to
make a question of it, may be assured that
I have no latent interpretations for defense
or exculpation: no secrets in reserve: that as far as my plan extended I
have told all I thought I knew, & that I thought
worth telling: that I have failed in any passage part
of making myself what I have said intelligible to the meaner
capacity, it is on one of two accounts: either
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