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13 May 1805
Evidence

Ch.
§. Application of the above principles to existing actually established law.

Hitherto we have been floating in the atmosphere of theory:
a one step more, and we are set down in practice are landed safe in practice and we find
ourselves safe landed on the terra firma of practice.

In the above catalogue of the ends – the legitimate ends, of procedure
– if the items be well-chosen rightly-chosen and the catalogue compleat,
we possess an instrument by which the fitness of any established
system of procedure may be without much difficulty,
in all its parts and ingredients.

By what name shall be we call our instrument be called? by what
metaphor (for without metaphor psychology has no language) shall be we describe it? it be described?

Shall we call it a tool?

Shall we call it a test? Is it a test? what system, of the systems in existence, shall abide it? Put into it any of the existing
systems, we obs
one of them, we shall find the contents of volume evap converted into gas or scoriæ. volume after volume fly off, into in gas or transude in scoriæ.

Shall we call it the spear Is it a spear like that of Ithuriel? Try it upon the touch with it
Doctors, Doctor after Doctor, Seraphic or Angelic, the robe cloak flies off, the Devil stands
confessed.

Experiment upon after experiment will be made, as we advance.

Test or spear, experiments will be made with it, in
convenient abundance, as we advance.


Identifier: | JB/058/102/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.

Date_1

1805-05-10

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

058

Main Headings

evidence

Folio number

102

Info in main headings field

evidence introd

Image

001

Titles

application of the above principles to /existing / actually established/ law

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

cw 1799

Marginals

Paper Producer

c. abbit lees

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1799

Notes public

ID Number

18771

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