JB/091/269/001

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25 Jany 1808

Unfortunately in the case of the this sort of ideal castle, there exists
applicable to the purpose a sort of crazy foundation,
a body of substantive law, in the state of jurisprudential
law, a mass of cobwebs spun out of the brains of Judges.
Here then is a rather sort of sham foundation, which
for every bad purpose, answerable for the purpose of
affording a pretence for the commencement of an edifice
which can never to stand to any good purpose can never stand predestined to rain, answers the purpose of a real one.
The castle what thus bespoke is a castle which is to be
built not indeed upon air, but what is worse, upon a
quicksand.

Propose to a lawyer, especially to such an one as
the learned adviser of Lord Eldon – propose to him
the building of the castle upon the quicksand, especially if
it be in its bits and scraps have a room without a roof,
thus a room left open on one side, there in another place
a wing without a staircase, he will tell you for he has
told you – that there are plans for it, there are precedents for it, and that accordingly
the thing may be done. Propose to him to build it
on terra firmer, beginning at the foundation, he will laugh
in your face, and ask whoever is stands next to him, whether
you are in the your right mind.

Identifier: | JB/091/269/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-01-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	269	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29265
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