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We have seen how
little it is to be expected
that any
Members in particular
any Member
of experience
and activity should
have any such plan
formed.
Very like the requests for such is luck - likes the ability or the inclination, or both I have heard it urged &c Look round when you will, it has been said, you will not find anything
But no Member
how discerns so
ever, and how general
so ever the
desire among Members
can move
for mistrusting such a process without
having a plan
formed.
The case is very
different when not
only a Plan is
formed, but a work
executed upon such
a Plan. These
is so found a
- lan of some sort
or other to build
upon - and any
Members may try point
to ithis hand upon it and propose to build upon it.
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All speculationscalculations
about the disposiitions
of men in power
would probably be
dilusions; happily
they are unnecessary.
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Intermedated, and
pressed into the service.
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Opening.
1. Index. making
£30,000 already
given by the House
for Indexes - and
work of this sort
is still to do.
2. Parliamentary
Draughtsmanship
which may as well
become a separate
Branch as Conveyancing
&c.
3. Making a new
Abridgment of the
Law marking the
merits of the old
ones.
3. Art of method
or Library Tactics
capable of universal
application.
-Leads to the art of
invention-
As an argument in general solidity of these prospects it may beobservation, may be may be right - bility<unclear><add>nowalltogether</unclear> wholesome not of plausibility.</add> to Mint no facts can be found indicative of the smallest incouragement given by men in power - indicative of the neglected wish to see things better &c
Bacon. But Bacons do appear in every age. Their repungency may in part be grounded on their notion of its impractability: and their notion of the impracticability of the thing in general, a King not havingwithout exception seen this particular mode. Their language may be abroadQuod optimini when they coyne to see it. <foreign><unclear>Quod optima Divini pemittin hemi Andirit</foreign></unclear> &c
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This plan of volunteership
in
respect of the compository
travel of
legislation is equally
favourable
to the purpose and
end in view upon
the opposite suppositions
- whether
the wishes of men
in office are favourable
amicable, or whether
they are adversehostile
to it. If amicable
they will be gratified
by it. if hostile
they willmay be over
awed
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The grand objection
(bona or
mala fide) is
that it is difficult
- impracticable
- for
it is not difficult
it is not unproveable
- it is
done.
A man feels
himself standing
on strong
ground when he
can say A text
exists already
whichexists even in terminis to my conception
answers
No purpose. It
exists - I have
it in my hand
No reason for
accusing Legislators
and Judges for
not having done their
part till Individuals
have done theirs.
Let a system of
Procedure compular
of Chican be
produced and spread
abroad, and then
infer a certain purpose
for consideration
of those if the
Legislation will have
will not take it up
then used not till then
will be the time to<lb/
petition and complain
- Complain
and Petition will
then have a certain ground
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One thing a man finds out, is worth twenty that he is told.
The authoritativeand formal part must be confirmedto the select few.
The essential of more truly honourable part is open to individual all the world.
The compositionpreparation
must be the work of years: thi adoption
may be the work of dispatched
in a few days.
It will be more honourable to give
the insprationthan to follow: to give than to obey it.
It has been seen that the bringing forward any extension and
effectual plans of improvement (and to be effectual they must be cohesive)is properly speaking work not for Legislators but for individuals.
ground to build upon and a certain remedy to pray for.
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B
Put the Accusation
against Judges
for not being forward
in the improvement
of the
law in the mouth
of on, and give
the answers and
apology in porposn
persona
To be angry with a
Lawyer for not mend
the law is to be angry
with the Wolf for not
mending the fence which
the shortfall
As has to offer
the product of
more than the
viginti annorum lucubrations25 years employed<unclear> not the not
the viginti annorum
lucubrations
so often
spoken of in
inquiring what
it is, but no
inquiring what
it ought to be,
and how far
what it is aprus
with what
it ought to be
Regarding itEmployed in in
their point of view
the most moderate
and ordinary talents may
without any thing
like presumption
be supposed to be
near the understanding
what it
ought to be than
the rarest and
brightest which
though conversant
with the same subject
for the answer
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The Personal Code
matter of the Personal
Code plan has
a known extent, confined
within known
limits. It is all
confined in the
compress of the publication
containing
the Statutes at large:
like such of them
as remain in force.
From that
are only to be expected
the natural li
Denominations when
from the Natural
Relations as Husband.
Wife - Parent
Child &c and a few
Political ones such
as King Judge Christ
&c concerning
which matter has
been createdproduced by Common
Law.
Of these exceptions
a Table which
may be easily done
by turning over the
Index to which an
Institute or Abridgment
of Com. Law.
or even so much greater
a length of view
neverhad been applied
to the contemplatory
of it in this point
of view
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Pupils to read over
the the
by any one
as employed are
after the other: each
to pay forfeit for any
Personal denomination
that another
can prove his having
omitted.
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It required a generallydegree
of labourindustry which
is not ordinarily bestowed
without some
specific object in
the shape of wealth
or dignityrank to look
up to as a ard
to draw it forth
This requistite
has been permitted
by the friend of
It required something
of a friend
which for the necessary
expenses incident
and previous
to theso bulky a publication
& something of a
fund which through
mischief compared with
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Get the Plan of
the digest drawn up
and printed and
exemplified upon Public
Alehouses
Print it with a very
large margin for the
notes
Read it at first as
a lecture - getting
the pupils to take
noted saying nothing
of the printed Copy.>
When they have taken
their notes then give
each a Copy
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with the many
redundancies
of natural expenditure
would be
but as a drop in
the Content might
not always
to be taken deducted
from the expenditure
find on the part of
every individual the
disposition as wellalong with
as the powerability to supply
it - Neither
as it happens will
this requisite be to
wantonly such
This conditionrequisite to will
also be fulfilled
happens also to be forthcoming.
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find the Chancellor
and the 12 Judges
each a copy of the
Proposal
Then afterwards
each a Copy of the
plan of a Digest.
Distribute the
Disbursement in
the Universities
Desire Answerers
to mention on what
terms - Payers -
Payers - or make
to pay, though not
requiring payment.
Then the Payers
of owners costs
no positions will
have the preference.
Composition must
proceed authentication
If a commoner
to be appointed tomorrow
the business would
not be facilitated.
What it is in the
power of Government
to do toward
such a Digest being
no proportion to what
is in the power of
Individuals.
Merit to be attained
then being
first Class
This an answer
to the imputation
of presumption.
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