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OBSTACLES Prejuges Lawyers
He has
Are subjects of comparison wanting, his mind is vacant?
do they abound? & it is distracted & overwhelmed.
are they reduced ?
His stock of sentiment intelligence is like the Materia
subtiles of Des Cartes, separated by thecollision of
from the his rudimental solidscubes: no cubes? no Materie
subtilis: no cases,2 no intelligencesjudgement concerning any
question that might be proposed.
Having suffered reason, the great candle of the Lord, which
is within him, to be almost extinguished for want
of testimony, he has no lights but what are struck
out by the collision of jarring cases.
There is no glimmering
so [faint &] distant, by
he will take it for
his all-sufficientonly guide.
Are MaximsRules of position Law complained against
as inexpediant?unreasonable he has nothing to try them by but
one another [His Jury is taken He takes his Jury out of the Newgate
Calendar.
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Overcome by the force of reason, he will now
then abandon a for appear disposed for a moment to
from the
abandon one where unconventional shall be made
too manifest to be : but if that which
it is prepared to be substituted in the room of ,
burns out to upon some other not
drawn originally into question, he faces about in
desperation; he grasps chases once more to his discarded for favorite
in a for his treacherous
dereliction, from that moment within reason
now ........ shall tear it from his bosom.
as if the return of
were to be the
emergence of its
disposition.
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