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9 July 1810 1810 July 19. 5
Fallacies Ch. Authority-worshippers
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§.2 Lawyers' interest sinister
The effect of uncertainty being to throw a man
into their hands, and the effect of m in the shape of delay vexation and
expence to keep him thus [in proportion
to the amount of it] to his own detriment and to
their advantage, it is their his interest that throughout the
whole field of law the degree or quantity of uncertainty,
delay vexation and expence be as small
as possible. [One] For the same reason it is in the interest of every man
their interest that his share in those evils be
as great as possible.
8 continues
The perfection of oppression [in the shape unto
of] extortion is to the profit and when for the benefit and to the profit of the extortioners
a man is made to suffer for
-pleasure non-conformity to with laws regard which
were never made, and which, lest he should conform
to them were have been and still are kept from being
made not only from being but so much as
from being made. Such is the tyranny exerted
by the fraternity of all the other members of
the community by the fraternity of lawyers.
9
This the perfection
of oppression
Propose that the only course by which the
people can be delivered from this tyranny, be taken,
propose that it be that throughout the field of law
it be rendered possible for men to know and by knowing
to conform to those rules for non conformity to which
they are continually afflicted and in so large a proportion every year in such numbers
ruined, the impossibility of such deliverance will be
exercised and precluded by the whole fraternity of lawyers.
10
Yet, propose that
the possibility of such
knowledge be afforded,
lawyers, one and all
will join in declaring
it impossible
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