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1825 Jany. 31
Procedure Code
Ch. Preface —Continue
§. General Review
Characteristic
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Another characteristic
Flexibility
1. Characteristic of their system 1. Flexibility principle
Another characteristic of this system is its flexibility:
the provision it makes for minimizing evil in each
individual case according to the proportion as to the quantity of evil reasonably
to be expected in the different cases giving the preference sometimes either
to the direct or sometimes or to the collateral ends of justice.
The pr topics to which the diversification is susceptible
of being applied and is here applied accordingly may be thus enumerated
Topics for diversification
1 Distance as to place
2 do as to time
3 Circumstances affecting
sensibility
Here collect them together: 1. Distance in the line of place.<llb/> 2. in the line of time. 3. Circumstances affecting sensibility, as
per to &c
Objections to flexibility
1. Danger from blameless
deception
2. Danger from of abuse
by erroneous judication
The only objection that principle — the flexibility has
to be 1. changes of blameless deception in respect of the faappropriate
facts : 2. charges of abuse by perpetually erroneous
in relation to them
But evil from inflexibility
predominant
over evil from flexibility
But here as elsewhere in the account between good and
evil the to be considered is most absolute, always relative and comparative. Compare then the evil
from flexibility with the evil from inflexibility. In case
of flexibility, the matter will be thoroughly of the
chances be not in favour of the doing less evil by the application
of it than would have place if not application were made
of it: but and where there is no flexibility the chances against the
hitting the right point are an infinity to one. In these as
in other cases, the arrive at may be : but in this
as in other cases the state of things supposed by the objection would
be ... minimal experience and observation, if the
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