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12 April 1805
Evidence
Such are the objects which interest, professional interest,
sinister interest, seconded by full power – full power – would naturally prompt
men to pursue in the construction of a system of procedure.
Such are the objects which, it will be seen but too plainly, have
actually been pursued, uniformly pursued, and every where, in the construction of the technical system
of procedure.
Such at any rate are the results which have taken
place, in proportion as the technical system has been rendered what
it is – in proportion as it deviated the natural from the domestic system from that standard of
perfection if the utility had been manifested of which the constructors of the technical
in common with the rest of mankind, by continual experience.
In what way the several results have flowed from the several leading arrangements
which from the characters of the system will be seen as we advance.
From the existence of a state of things in a certain degree, in the character of
a result an effect, it follows not by any means that in the same degree
it must have been an object and end of action in the eyes of those by whose
agency it was produced brought into existence. But in what degree the result
was also had also been and object – i.e. in what degree with relation to the
description of persons in question it was an object of design
or at least of contemplation, in what degree a matter of mere accident
is question point of no practical importance and altogether beyond
the reach of scrutiny, and happily as immaterial as it is inscrutable.
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