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Judicial Estab.
Judges – Number
6. Numbers are obstacles to exertion. In the bulk
Habit, formed in the bulk of causes by reason and
The great bulk of the business being an affair of routine admitts of no diversity
of opinion renders exertion unnecessary on the part
of every one, and even speech on the part of all but
one. Does Some one of the number under some
such name as that of Chief or President does the
greater part of the business by himself. as is fit
and right he should do The rest are sit silent
as it is fit and right they should do, rather than
consume their own time – and that of so many others
by unnecessary discourse. Want of practice exercise benumbs
all faculties in all men. Reposing themselves
on the President on the greater number of occasions
with from reason and by necessity, habit disposes them
to do so in great measure on the remainder including
those the few in which exertion had were they to employ
it might have been of service. It is an irksome
situation for a man to be perpetually studying what
to think and say, and yet perpetually finding himself
anticipated. He accordingly soon grows weary of it.
They repose themselves The crowd on the President, trusting
to his skill derived from practice. He on his part
reposes himself in some degree upon them: trusting
to
Identifier: | JB/051/381/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
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evidence; procedure code |
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381 |
judicial estab. judges number |
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f15 / f16 / f17 / f18 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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16546 |
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