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19 April 1810
Sinecures
In the case of almost all other, perhaps in the case
With little or no exception, in the case of all other
sufferers suffering, fellow sufferers having a common interest
find raise means to raise lift up a common voice. In the
case of this the sort of affliction here in question,
that sort of concert is impossible. Litigants, to whom
are to be added those who would be so litigants if they were
not precluded from being so by a distress degree still greater
than what any that is felt by those who are – Litigants and
would be litigants – are stand divided into two bands, plaintiffs
and defendants stationed in the two bands, whose
station is of the one on the plaintiffs, of the other on
the defendant's side. As between band and band there
is nothing but hostility: as between individual and
individual in the same band there is no principle
of union.
In the the potter, in the the musician,
though to some purposes he beholds a rival
yet to other purposes beholds a riv brother. Between
litigant and litigant, even where there is no rivalry
there is still no brotherhood: there neither has ever been as
now or ever can be.
Between men whose hearts have been broken by
injustice or by law by the mischief or by the remedy
there is no more community of interest cause of concert and sympathy
than between men whose legs or arms have been broken
by accident.
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