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Ch. XII Judiciary collectively
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He receives fees from
any one — for the
support of the greatest
delinquents in every
imaginable offence.
He received a piece of gold — he receives it from
any man whatsoever: he receives it for the purpose of
giving support in the ordinary as far as words
will give it in the exercise of his profession to any thing that
the any body will name — he receives the piece of gold
and by this receipt it is made his duty to give his
assistance of head and to the of iniquity
in any imaginable shape — to the prosecution of a robber
or murderer or assassin an . His duty? in what way
by what title is it become his duty? Prevention of Procuring impunity for a
past murder assassin — how clear so ever it may be that impunity
for the past will bear produce repetition in or for the future is not it is true
itself exactly committing doing murder: but in other respects by the receipt
of the gold it is rendered his duty to do that which accordingly
he does for it, exactly as by receipt of the same piece
of gold it would be made the duty of an assassin by trade profession
to murder the man, woman or child for the murdering of who
he was thus hired.
But whatsoever may be the attention or the inattention neglect
may happen to be paid to all other duties, there is a duty
which is more meat in danger of being neglected.
[+] The most heard may
it be by whom the
dishonesty
for the exercise of his
profession is most explicitly
and acknowledged.
For here it is — here it is at any rate that between
the so talked of and so little exemplified coincidence — the
coincidence between interest and duty, as if the rendered duty
rendered entire.
When this and every thing else that in the same stream
and to the same end and in the same stream has been said then
that can be said of them, let then and after the being
so long as one is man all the estimation they are held
in fall short of that which for the interest of the community it is
desirable that it should be: nor will it to fall short of
that number: nor will it cease to go beyond it: whose pain in
their estimation follows it, and who estimate pain. No despot
so murderous no real man so ruthless no not in his estimation
and
and power in fact proportion
to his pain: no rate now
so ruthless as not to have
if not estimation at any
rate his full of
service of and
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