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<head>OBSTACLES <sic>PREJUGES</sic> Profess.<hi rend="superscript">l</hi> Of LAWYERS Utopianism what?</head> | |||
<head>UTOPIANISM.</head> | |||
<p>The direction and rapidity of the tide of popular sentiment cannot <add>will not</add> often come under<lb/> Calculation: therefore <foreign>fiat experimentum</foreign>.</p> | |||
<note>There are <del>two things</del> <add>3 properties either of which <add>on this title</add> serve to which characterize<lb/> | |||
that sort of political <del>projects</del> <add>proposals</add> which<lb/> | |||
may be stiled Utopian: <del>the</del> one is<lb/> | |||
the <del>importing of </del> <add>regarding the sacrifice of</add> private interests<lb/> | |||
<del><add>instead of <del><gap/></del> them</add> is the <gap/>, but <gap/><lb/><add>in the scheme</add> <del><gap/> sacrifice</del>: another is,<lb/> | |||
that <del><gap/></del> <add>being fashioned</add> so loosely &<lb/> | |||
generally, as to have no application<lb/> | |||
to practise: and third is<lb/> | |||
<del>their</del> being, <add><unclear>virtuously</unclear> &</add> their being <add>irremediably</add> adverse to<lb/> | |||
the prevailing prejudice of the<lb/> | |||
people: [which projects otherwise<lb/> | |||
unexceptionable will sometimes<lb/> | |||
be in the inverse proportion of<lb/> | |||
their intelligence, that is inversely<lb/> | |||
as their conceptions of general utility<lb/> | |||
are clear.]<lb/> | |||
of this sort for example is <del>the</del> ancient<lb/> | |||
Stat. <add>of the time of Edw. 2</add> called the Statute of Ragman<lb/> | |||
in which the King enjoins that no | |||
Plaintiff or Defendant should be <gap/><lb/> | |||
by the Tricks of Pettyfoggers<lb/> | |||
& <gap/> : <add>Pick l. 395</add> business was to collect<lb/> | |||
what those tricks were, & paid out<lb/> | |||
a Check to apply to each of them: but this <add>which is as yet far from being completed<lb/> was no task <del>for an illiterate</del> to be accomplished at once by an illiterate<lb/> & unobscuring age. Of this stamp are multitudes of the Statutes of 2 or 3 past Centuries.</note> | |||
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OBSTACLES PREJUGES Profess.l Of LAWYERS Utopianism what? UTOPIANISM.
The direction and rapidity of the tide of popular sentiment cannot will not often come under
Calculation: therefore fiat experimentum.
There are two things 3 properties either of which <add>on this title serve to which characterize
that sort of political projects proposals which
may be stiled Utopian: the one is
the importing of regarding the sacrifice of private interests
<add>instead of them</add> is the , but
in the scheme sacrifice: another is,
that being fashioned so loosely &
generally, as to have no application
to practise: and third is
their being, virtuously & their being irremediably adverse to
the prevailing prejudice of the
people: [which projects otherwise
unexceptionable will sometimes
be in the inverse proportion of
their intelligence, that is inversely
as their conceptions of general utility
are clear.]
of this sort for example is the ancient
Stat. of the time of Edw. 2 called the Statute of Ragman
in which the King enjoins that no
Plaintiff or Defendant should be
by the Tricks of Pettyfoggers
& : Pick l. 395 business was to collect
what those tricks were, & paid out
a Check to apply to each of them: but this <add>which is as yet far from being completed
was no task for an illiterate to be accomplished at once by an illiterate
& unobscuring age. Of this stamp are multitudes of the Statutes of 2 or 3 past Centuries.
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