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the most Extensive, the most Intricate, and , as it now stands,
the most Defective, of the whole Criminal Law. Accordingly,
the Greatest Pains haven been taken with this Division
of the Code, and the most Sweeping Alterations suggested,
It embraces as well the Civil as the Criminal Mode of
Proceeding; the two being so intimately allied, that it is
impossible, in a satisfactory manner, to treat of, or to reform
either, by itself.
"A large work is difficult because it is large, even
though all its parts might singly be performed with facility;
where there are many things to be done, each must be
allowed its share of time and labour, in the proportion only
which it bears to the whole."(c) In this spirit, I hope mine
will be judged. At the same time, I may be allowed to
add, that I have spared no pains to render Fidelity and
Trustworthiness its Characteristics.
Another Characteristic of this work is Originality. My
object throughout has been to Think for myself, and on the
one or two occasions upon which I have adopted the language
of another writer, I have pointedly acknowledged the
obligation. (d)
(c) Dr. Johnson. Preface to his Dictionary.
(d) I observe that some of the placita of title Forgery (a part of
the Appendix to the Report of the Criminal Law Committee) have
been adopted into the last edition of Burn's Justice; a course
perfectly justifiable, and which, had that title been a publication,
and therefore accessible to the profession, would have been passed
by me unnoticed. But having continued these placita in the
reprint as they stood in the original title, to avoid a misconception
I have made this remark.
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