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§. Hatred of Justice universal among lawyers.

When reason is against man, man (says the proverb) is against reason.
With equal truth and necessity equally inevitable When justice is against a man, man is against justice.
In any other station in life it is only by accident that justice is one
against a man, it is only by accident that man is against
justice. But in the station of a man of law, just is for ever
against man, a man is for ever against justice. but an advent
In a system constructed wholly by lawyers the man of law wholly and for the benefit of
lawyers the man of law, not an advantage has the lawyer he given himself, that he
has not given himself at the expence of justice.

Hence that sentiment affection which in the breast of an ordinary man
is but a transient sanction, counteracted by more frequent authors
in an opposite direction of the opposite cast, will naturally in the breast of a man of law be converted
form grow itself into a passion, a fixed, a ruling steady, an
ever-ruling passion: the whole course and conduct of his
a rooted and unrelenting altogether implausible hatred of justice, a hatred never incapable
of being
to be assuaged, because the cause root is incapable of being removed,
is the force that will give motion and direction – to the whole course
and conduct of his life.

S Men whose station or character presents events of conscience,
wil not want be in want for biographers: Like other men of other classes, lawyers which is as much to say autographs in the ordinary course of giving biography
which, in the ordinary shrine of biography, is as much as to say
eulogists. Like men of other classes, lawyers men of law have had theirs.
The elogicisms have been more or less merited. But, in any given
instance, to form a true correct estimate of the hero's character, the influence,
the unsurmountable influence of this master passion must be taken
into account. And when the services done by him to mankind as by came
to be enumerated, the services, upon the supposition that in the touch
of his any such eccentricities were to be found, in reflection should
not be omitted. To such a degree, and in such and such
instances had he prevailed upon himself to apply the keep
under subjection the passion predicament of every learned breast – the
hated of justice.

Till the kingdom of heaven, it was po even pharisees would introduce themselves, as camels or cables
(the difference is not great) could be squeezed through the eyes of needles. But, if Justice had her temples
and the apartments in them were appropriated to the reception of her true lovers, camels would go through
the eyes of needles at full gallop, before a single lawyer man of law would ever set his foot within the temple of Justice.


Identifier: | JB/058/198/001
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Box

058

Main Headings

evidence

Folio number

198

Info in main headings field

evidence

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

1800

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

18867

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