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1826. July 1
Constitutional Code.

Ch. Preface or Introduction
(5 §. Judge &c

For the Atty Gen.l for its
Only inexcusible for doing without a fee that which any man
would be not only excused but if able been lauded for doing
it done for a fee

In the case in question to determine in what propor
regard to the several individuals in what proportion the effect
has had for its cause deficiency in wisdom, in what proportion
deficiency in honesty is an operation alike mindless and impracticable:
as little would it be worth to spend time
in enquiring whether in those places an equal number of men
chosen by a lottery wheel, or were an equal number of those
engaged in the endeavour to substitute this remedy to the above
would not have maintained the same line of conduct have done as they do
One of the propositions so simply demonstrated by universal experience
is a that the most grossly absurd propositions are
not without sincere embracers or defenders: for the demonstration by authorities
is a means of proof by which for the most absurdly improbable or
impossible positions may alike accomplices may be as easily
obtained as by the most probable.

Addend
True — his reason for thinking that there are any others who in
their situation would not in the main have been guilty of the
same abomination.

But this affords us ground for affecting to any self-justificators
a laudatory protestation from themselves or their supporters

The protestations alike groundless would have been by those their
unagreed substitutes

Others in their situation would have robbed as these have
as not and run an argument for having robbers imprisoned: much less should it be for having these in their
.

On each occasion an assumption in which every thing is
grounded is that same perfection in respect of honesty and evidence:
this assumption being the exact reverse of the truth, the elimination opposition of the
conclusion to such first real reason is a necessary and un-failing consequence

Things being thus vain altogether would be the endeavour — lest the
labour employed in the production and publication of the best possible
system of procedure so long as those whose opposition to it is necessitated
by sinister interest were left in possession of the reputation
of so timid as common honesty wisdom in with common
honesty.

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Date_1	1826-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	057	Main Headings	constitutional code
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