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1830 July 31
Civil CodeCh. 1. Consideranda
§ Rationale – its own why not universally orapproved acceptable

☞ Rationale – All law antecedent to the Age of
rationalization, the Age of barbarism: a
of separation and this.

Codes and Laws unrationalised – why as yet regarded
with more general complacency than rationalized
ones? Answer

A rationalized code or law requires not only
mental labour not only on the part of the writer
to frame it, but also on the part of the reader to
comprehend it, and form a right estimate of the
value of it.

Take Bonaparte's Codes – all or any of them for
example. For no one arrangement – for no one enactment
does it attempt to find and give a reason, or such much
as the shadow of one. Of this nakedness what is the consequence?

Every man who takes in hand the whole or any part
of it, finds himself perfectly at his ease, in relation to its
eulogy or obloquy, he finds himself at full liberty to
apply to it, and every part of it, according, as at the
moment he feels himself inclined. This is good, or this is
bad: I like this: I don't like that. The least intellectual
mind feels itself upon a par with the most intellectual:
the strongest will carries it, the strongest will
with the help and by the means of correspondently strongest
expression given to that same will.

When to an ordinary mind the ratiocinative matter
of any part of the Pannomion is presented, it turns away from
from it as an idle Schoolboy does from his task.

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