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1826. July 1
Constitutional Code.
Ch. Preface or Introduction
(5 §. Judge &c
For the Atty Gen.l for its
inexcusible for doing without a that which any
would be not only excused but if able done lauded for doing
it done for a
In the case in question to determine in what propor
regard to the several individuals in what proportion the effect
has had for its cause deficiency in wisdom, in what proportion
deficiency in honesty is alike mindless and impracticable: as little would it be worth to spend time
in enquiring whether in those places an equal number of men
chosen by a lottery wheel, or were an equal number of those
engaged in the evidence to substitute this remedy to the
would not have maintained the service here of have done as they do evident
On of the proposition so simply demonstrated by universal experience
is a that the most grossly absurd propositions were
not without sincere embracers or defenders: for the demonstration by authorities
is a means of proof by which for the most absurdly improbable or
impossible positive may alike accomplices may be as easily
obtained as by the most probable.
True — his reason for thinking that there are any others who in
their situation would not in the main have been guilty of the
same abomination.
But this affords us ground for affecting to any self-justificators
a laudatory protestation from themselves or their supporters
The protestations alike groundless would have been by those their
unagreed substitutes
Others in their situation would have robbed as these lines
or not and run an argument for having robbers imprisoned: much less should it be for having these in their
.
On each occasion an assumption in which every thing is
grounded is that same projection in respect of honesty and evidence:
this assumption being the exact reverse of the truth, the damnation opposition of the
conclusion to such first real reason is a necessary and un-failing consequence
Things being thus worse altogether would be the endeavour — lose the
labour employed in the production and publication of the best possible
system of procedure to try as</del those whose opposition to it is
by sinister interest were left in possession of the regulation
of so as common honesty wisdom or more well
honesty.
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