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Prefat.

Fiction avoided

One point I have most religiously observed, in
every explanation I have attempted, which
is to keep clear of fiction. Fiction the bane
of science, which is frequently wickedness, and
which is at best but nonsense, can never be requisite
for explanation: fiction is no more an
elucidation of what is obscure, than one riddle
is of another: for from fiction that is from falshood
(it is an ob it has been applied to arguments
but it may be applied with equal justice
to exposition, no ideas can be collected but what
are false.

..... nor do I see [why men should] how it is that men can come to love darkness
better than light unless it is because their
optics are weak, or because their deeds are
evil.

One thinks one may venture to affirm that the
reforming hand of the legislator (notwithstanding
the benedictions which one great lawyer has bestowed
upon it(a)) (a) Blessed be the reforming hand Ld Coke. [must never expect to be] will never be heartily
seconded by men of the profession, while fiction
continues to be looked upon I do not say of complacency,
but even so much as indifference.

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impossible it should in any case be productive
of utility benefit or mischief to mankind, and
all that the botanist could say of it would
only be so much learned trifling.

Shall words be coined or shall discoveries
perish in the bud, and the growth of science
be at a stand?

287.

Law Vocabulary of universal law the result of the whole

My design is, according to the proportion of life
that is allotted to me, to go on with
extend my researches to the several branches
that compose the whole body of the laws: comprehending
the whole at first in a general
sketch, & so going on more & more minutely
by degrees

Whatever branch I come to, I shall have
of course be obliged to prepare in my own
way the stock of words I shall have occasion
to make use of in treating of that branch.
Supposing one therefore to have gone through all the
the whole branches I should then & not till then be
ripe for giving a compleat vocabulary of universal
jurisprudence

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	287
Box	027	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field	prefat.
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
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