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1827 Nov. 21
Constitutional Code

23
Ch. XII Judiciary collectively
(2) (8 §. Locable who.

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In the hireling advocate
delusion spread over
right & wrong to such
a degree that one half
of his professional life
is spent in the fully
conscious support of
wrong.

In the hireling Advocate may be seen a man to
whom under the delusion spread over right and wrong by
the weakness attached to the conferring of society a licence
has as yet been granted by public opinion, to fulfill
an engagement, for the formation of which for a single piece of gold the engagement to
exert apply his utmost mental strength to the giving effect to
the most atrocious plan villany of app depredation or oppression or injustice
that human ingenuity can devise. Of his whole professional
life one half is accordingly employed in the giving
support to wrong without discrimination in all its various shapes as chance may
have determined: and in an indeterminately large proportion
of this half it is with full consciousness of whatever wickedness
there may be in the case that the support is afforded. If
within the field of human action there be any sort of practice
the tendency and effect of which is to produce an indifference
as between right and wrong — to regard every right without sympathy
wrong without antipathy, it is surely this. But no
it is not indifference as between right and wrong: it is not
indifference as to wrong: it is predilection in favour of it that
in r the tendency and effect of such occupation to create give existence and continual encrease
to and and preserve. Why? Because the greater most flagrant and
notorious the end machinery and notorious the wrong, the
stronger and more brilliant is the talent displayed: and the
more broken stronger and more brilliant the talent displayed
the h more intense the admiration — the more abundant
the profit made in this same occupation, and under the
existing prejudice erroneous proposition the greater the probability of the option
of succeeding being seated upon a vacancy to the highest in the one or other highest seat
of judicature.

Identifier: | JB/042/564/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 42.
Date_1	1827-11-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	564	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d23 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	brocklesby & morbey 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	edmund henry barker
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	13487
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