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17 July 1805
Evidence
No: not a single instance can be put can be cited ever happen in which for the a set the prices of a
certain price sum of money, distributed in settled proportions among the different classes
of men of law, the judicial not excluded, every any man who has money enough in his
purse, and wickedness enough in the heart.
In vain would he fly for refuge to the depravity or infirmity
of human nature. No: in all this enormous mass of misery and
vice and misery, there is nothing at all not one atom that is the work of nature.⊞ ⊞ Nature is not thus barbarous. It is all the throughout
a work of art: is is all the work of industry of wayward industry, of labor improbus,
and in a sense no figurative.(a)
The remedy is not only in the contemplation but in the practice:
of their in the practice of them to whom the power of rendering power has never been wanting
it co-extensive with the mischief has never been wanting.
What is the consequence? A fixed, established, legal, includable
tyranny of the opulent vested in the hands of the opulent, to be exercised over the indigent.
Note
(a) No professional man will venture to deny this. The causes and proof of
it is is included compressed in a very short phrase: the difference between costs
out of pocket and taxed courts. This difference is all of it in toto factitious:
all of it the fruit of the technical system: all of it made business.
There lies the glove: take it up who dare. Let him take it up
who feels has courage enough to deny the existence of the sun at noon day.
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