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Preface
The interest of those for whose benefit laws
are professed to have been made is, as to this matter
that of the aggregate body of law by which this end is
endeavoured to be accomplished the whole field the whole
of its extent should be covered with a mass of law designed
for the production of that effect and that of the four immediately
subordinate ends in view the accomplishment
should thereby be maximized to wit subsistence abundance
security and as far as consistent with the above three ends
equality. The delay vexation & expence necessary
to the giving execution and effect to that same body of
law being at the same time minimized. Of the aggregate body of the
functionaries of whom the Judicial Establishment has
hitherto been composed can by the leading persons among
whom the law of procedure has in their peculiar mode
that is to say the Judiciary alias the common law mode
been framed in so far as a fictitious entity the form of
which is different in the hands of every one of its
fabricators can be said to have been framed in that
delay vexation and expence be maximized for the
sake of the expence produced by the delay and vexation
and the profit produced extracted out of the
expence, and that for this purpose the portion of the
field of law covered by real law the work of authorized
and avowed legislators should be minimized, the proportion
of fictitious law made as above by Judges
and all the while declared by them not to have been made
by them be maximized.
By the author of these pages no share in that
profit was ever aimed at or desired nor at present could
by possibility be received, his interest is therefore in the state
of the greatest possible harmony with what he has made his
duty and accordingly wherever it may have happened to him
to have erred the error
will have happened through had a
deficiency not in moral but in
active and intellectual aptitude
for its cause
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