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sensation, the wonder is not great. In the Prussian
army they have no medical assistance or worse
than none. How do things go on there? How? — why Today
the people die. Sixty thousand in last campaign
instead of ten or twenty. Death and of justice injustice
afford an effectual solution of every difficulty solution of all difficulties.
That this is law still, does not happen is not the case in this
instance as in so many others, because Lawyers, like
churchmen, have sworn never to grow wiser. The
defect is rooted in the institution. It is grafted into
its sup advantages or supposed advantages. If you Allow the Jurymen
breathing time, if you allow them time to hear and
reflect, if you allow them to go back to their own houses,
and see their own company before the cause is ever
before their decision is given, they are not a Jury.
They then are become accessible to the parties: they are
become liable to be embraced as the old law phrases
it: their virgin purity is gone. If they remain
unseduced, it is more than any body can say
for them: and if they are suspected of being seduced
it is as bad as if they were. They sink in this they become to ll
respect into Judges: with the difference against them
between the facility of corrupting a great Magistrate
and that of bribing a petty tradesman. That this I speak not
<del<of treaties: I speak of any single</del> I say </del> one: for disinterested mony probity
will be but a feeble match for purchased perseverance. That they may
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