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29 Feby 1808

It is not necessary that professional lawyers should be habitual
liars. It is not necessary that Judges should have been professional
lawyers. Judicature not advocateship is the best school for judicatories.

What serves as a pretence at least if not and indeed
in some degree as a reason for taking none but professional
lawyers to serve officiate as Judges is the practice and expertness
in a word the intellectual aptitude of which
the exercise of the profession is a cause.

Thus it is that for the sake of an improvement
in the intellectual part of a man's frame, the moral part
is debased:

Nor is his all. Not long ago an observation
was made that if eleven men sitting on the ministerial
bench in the House of Commons his were those in hand at he either belonged at the time or
belonged not one time to the profession of the law.

From such a training can anything better than
habitual insincerity be internally expected?

Identifier: | JB/091/300/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	300	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29296
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