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Demare you as re-enacted your indefensible law of nature
and that every man has a right to proclaimed the maxim, Every man
plead his own cause. his own lawyer. The hireling laughs at
your maxim, and sits down in tranquil
certainty expectation of his posy. He knows that at the very
first step the Client has attempts to take in the road
to Justice he will find there begins you have built a labyrinth to which
no man has a certain clue, and to which no
man but a lawyer can pretend to have any.(a) (a) For the note see a separate page half-sheet
However dry as your metaphysics may be not is so the
only to the miserable client whom you force
to devour it without sauce. lawyer will not
complain of it so long as the Client finds sauce
to it: jurisprudence, metaphysics, polemical
divinity nothing no science is dry that can catch contrive to any
of the droppings of the golden shower.
As to the Committee, they have laid the foundation of their
labyrinth is laid; is laid, but who shall say when
or by whom it shall be finished? Out of the
first parcel of metaphysics come forth
doubts: then comes more metaphysics to solve
those doubts; and out of the fresh metaphysics
arise fresh doubts. I have looked At a moments
at glance I first see doubts enough to fill a
volume: — but who would thank me for it? Ask 5. Subservience
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