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CERTAINTY. EVIDENCE.
v. & Hale 277. Incompetency from Crimes.
I think I reason for admitting such an one an
evidence. And my reason is the practise of the
Law — it is founded on experiment or a course experiments
f abundant & unintermitted experiments — the result
of which is uniform in [my] favour
The doubts of the reader ought indeed in all cases to be governed guided on the weight strength of the argument, not the strength of the assertion: but I here give particular warning of it. Judgments comparison of Ideas are less liable to dispute than those which turn upon experience & observation of facts different in different men — hence I am less confident here with the same internal conviction, than in what I have said concerning Suicide, Buggery, &c. Qu I may say in short, that no exception should be raised positively against to exclude evidence at all but how few are there who enter thus anxiously intimately into the motives of their assent I hazard an opinion I am sensible, apparently very
singular & paradoxical, when I venture to
suggest that even perjury itself in should
not be an conclusion objection exception against the competency
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