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OBSTACLES Prejuges Lawyers
He has
Are subjects of comparison wanting, his mind is vacant?
do they abound? & it is distracted & overwhelmed.
are they redundant?
His stock of sentiment intelligence is like the Materia
subtilis of Des Cartes, separated by thecollision of
from the his rudimental solids cubes: no cubes? no Materie
subtilis: no cases, 2 no intelligencesjudgement concerning any
question that might be proposed.
Having suffered original reason, the great Candle of the Lord, which
is within him, to be almost extinguished for want
of testimony, he has no lights but what are struck
out by the collision of jarring cases.
There is no glimmering
so [faint &] distant, by
he will take it for
his all-sufficient only guide.
Are Maxims Rules of position Law complained against
as inexpedient? unreasonable he has nothing to try them by but
one another [His Jury is taken He takes his Jury] out of the Newgate
Calendar.
Overcome by the force of reason, he will now &
then abandon testify a disposition for appear disposed for a moment to
retreat from the defence abandon one where inconveniences shall be made
too flagrant manifest to be dissembled: but if that which
it is prepared to be substituted in the room of it,
turns out to preach upon some other Rule not
drawn originally into question, he faces about in
desperation; he grasps chaos hugs once more to his discarded favorite
in a penitential agony for his precipitate treacherous
dereliction, & vows that from that moment neither reason
nor ........ shall tear it from his bosom.
as if the return of
Chaos were to be the
consequence of its
dispossession.
As Logicians
with Aristotle
debating some proposition
of his,
but making others
decisive.
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