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6 Decr 1811
Evidence
<p>§ 8. V. Writing.
</p>In its application to this purpose as to others purposes
writing, like most other efficient and [26] powerful instruments,
writing in its application be the for other
is susceptible capable of being applied made productive of
the most beneficial, and, at the same time, as the of
the most pernicious effect.
There is the object of the legislator
will be to improve answer the to and persons
To maximize use, to minimize abuse,
such here as elsewhere, will to be the object of the legislator.
Distinctness, recollected of and permanence
For the In what way from this instrument, evidence may be
made, in the most effectual manner, to receive not only permanence, but
distinctness and recollectedness, will be seen more particularly as
we advance. follow the Moreover where, by distance, the collection
of evidence in the oral mode is rendered either physically
or prudentially impracticable, it may
be made own be writing the instrument with perfection
but existence to this instrument it is that it must
be indebted, not only for perfection but for existence.
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