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Tit. II. B. & C.

are more or less broken under its authority. It is
however relatively a good thing? for half a loaf
is better than starving farmi famine. But why
good? on what supposition? — on no other than
that of the badness of the system of Procedure.

That a man of benevolence should wish to see
accommodation take place under a system of procedure
such as we now see established is natural and
may be wise. That such a man should wish to
see accommodation take place under the system
which he himself is forming as the best which can
be devised may be is but too natural but is not wise. Of
his new system the property is to be free from those
defects [which poison spoil the old one,] which prevents it
the old one from fulfilling the promises of the law,
and which alone can render the measure of giving up any
part of the good things promised an advantageous
one. A man who after planning Courts
of Justice sets himself to plan offices of accommodation,
what is he doing? He is prect blocking
up with one hand the door entrance he has been opening
with another.

Against this charge of inconsistency, diffidence
will afford no defence no good plea can be found
in diffidence. It is in vain to say, my system of

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Identifier: | JB/051/218/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
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