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T. Prelud. VIII
If among of a set of provisions respecting a given class
there be one or more & part only respects another class, such part as
is peculiar to the first will compose a Section
by itself entitled from the that first class. - the
remainder will go to compose another Section, which
shall take it's Title jointly from the names of
both the classes whom it respects.
Hence in forming the collection of the Law belonging
to any class it will be necessary not to confine
oneself one's enquiry to that Section which bears the title of that
class singly, but besides that to search for any
other Section which may have the name of that
class united to that of some other
By this means the collection compliment of the particular codes
will be formed an affair of by addition merely, or the
putting of a number of Sections together, without
further trouble: an operation, in this case, of very
different facility in this case in point from that of subtraction; other where
extricating the articles in demand are to be extracted from
out of a heap of others from whence with which it must often
happen to them to be so entangled, as not to be
separable detached without undergoing an alteration
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Generalia confrontantor cum sebi Subjectis Specialibus.
No such composition should be looked upon in which those more general propositions,
<add>capable of</add> influencing others, should be looked upon
as compleated, without examining to see what
are those others which it does influence, & in
what manner it inflences them.
Id fiat per Tabulationem.
This operation can scarcely be done performed commodiously &
satisfactorily without having those propositions
tablewise, confrontable by a single glance
with such general propositions & with each other.
Ea adjumentorum Mechanicarum Utilitas.
Of such importance are these mechanical
expedients, as helps to the imperfections of the
human faculties. of mankind.
This Act, by the multiformity of the provisions
it contains, is the seeming fittest that could have
been chosen for a specimen
New
In the new Act, a few faint efforts are seem
made by the compiler to thin off the immense load of words
under which he labours. Thus "Limit" is just
for the locus of a Justice's Jurisdiction, instead
of the never ending yet perhaps imperfect -Roll of
names usually inserted. By this alteration
conciseness is introduced as far as it goes;
but is not obscurity too in some measure?
New
After the plan of this essay had been finished, compleated
as well as the observations which it includes
as to all every thing but their disposition, I obtained
a sight of the Bill for repealing the subject matter of
theme, & reenacting the provisions of it with
alterations, which has since passed into
an Act — In this I had the satisfaction to
observe besides numerous original provisions
(the fruit of much ingenuity no small degree of sagacity and prodigious
assiduity & attention) several of the defects I
had set my finger on cured , entirely <add></add> many
some imperfectly, & a great many but the greatest part not
touched upon at all.
Monochrest — Polychrest — Holochrest, or
Panchrest.
Distributione analogusque indicatis Subjectum minuitur
The supposed immensity of the subject shrinks
into a moderate dimension to the eye of him
who in virtue of the analogies pointed out to
him as subsisting between the various parts, is
satisfied, that in th viewing seeing one, he sees the
whole. them all.
Homologous parts
Let not therefore the project of a general
reduction digest of the Law be deemed chimerical impracticable
on account of the vastness of its aggregate. the whole together
It has is already actually begun & executed in part:
tho' men those who have executed it seem hardly aware of it's being so, what they have
done. & though what is executed is executed without
the appearance of a any plan or method.
By this means there is about as much
done to the forming of such a digest as would
better the test of examination, as would be
towards the building of a town, Which the eye can not only fathom, but embrace. if the various out
materials of a vast variety of scatter'd stones the various
materials necessary for the building of each
House were brought together, separated from
the common stone-houses
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