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21 Aug. 1806
Evidence

Should have given this with the rest in a severer :
But the public is sort of a person to which his amusement is dear, and
his welfare a matter of indifference.

Forty years at least must have elapsed since in glancing over at
the English law of evidence, as presented delivered by Lord Chief Baron Gilbert
it presented to my eyes a mass of absurdity, such as I had
never beheld elsewhere, unless it were written at least out of the pale of to jurisprudence.
Short indeed in comparison Much shorter is the time that has elapsed since in
rushing a little looking more closely into the absurdity compost mass; I began to understand a suspicion arose
that the absurdity had at least as much of knowing causing as of
imbecillity at the bottom of it.

When first I engaged in the task of particularizing and
putting into order the general conceptions that had so long ago
presented themselves to my view mind, I was far enough from any the
such intention of giving any such view of the foundations
of English judicature as is announced in the title of the work, and as will be found in the second of the five
books of which the present volume is composed. But the further
I pursued the enquiry task, the more unavoidable I found this part
of it. Explained by this light With this key every thing was that was done became plain and clear: deprived
of it, every thing that I saw was done was an effect without a cause.
Applicable as the result may be to so many other important
purposes, it was not the less necessary to the purpose of the remaining other parts every other
part of the present work.

⊞ In vain were my
prayers (for what are
wishes but prayers?) that
a cup of such bitterness
might not be pressed upon
me. Like Nature the Poets when
drawn up with a pitchfork
it fall back upon me
at every peep.

Identifier: | JB/047/118/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-08-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	14986
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