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3 March 1804
Evidence

That the customers for law should be (as in proportion to the
degree of national intelligence they unquestionably are) worse served at to
this hour than the customers for any other kind of commodity – and
that even in the best furnished shops, is a fact that may be abundantly
accounted for by either, much by both together, of
two concomitant causes – the power of the manufacturer on one hand, and the relative ignorance
of the customer on the other.

The manufacture of law is a compleat monopoly: a monopoly
the closeness and consequently the oppressiveness of which goes far beyond
what is ordinarily apprehended even by imagination what imagination has ever conceived in regard of other manufactures. No
other manufacturer has the power of forcing the his customers to take the
goods of his own fabrication, and to take them upon his own terms.

No other manufacturer has it in the smallest degree in his
to conceal the badness of his goods, and the frauds used in the
fabrication of them, the extortiousness of the price put upon them by
any jargon of his own making. He may give them any head
names that he pleases: but these goods will no more be bought for
, f coarse for fine, or dull for bright, under these head
names than under the most familiar ones.

He may put what quantity of other people's hair upon his head he pleases
and in what form he pleases – he may edge or trim his clothing
with ermine in what quantity or form he pleases – nonsense will
not be the more readily
bad goods will not be the more readily taken
at his hands than good ones, and more than nonsense in praise of
them for sense, folly for wisdom.


Identifier: | JB/091/020/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1804-03-03

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

020

Info in main headings field

evidence

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

29016

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