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and that among them will be found 
many lawyers who revere you, and 
many learned physicians who have 
studied your luminous system. 
The learned no less than honourable 
Agustin Arguelles ranks himself in the 
number of your admirers: so does our 
liberator Riego; who, if he did not al- 
ready enjoy the public esteem by that 
— title, would obtain it now by 
1is pacific and affectionate letter to the 
two Arguelles, in which he submits 
himself to their direction as skilful and 
well-informed guides. You ought, in- 
deed, to have no doubt that we shall all 
contribute to place the science of moral 
and physical man on one and the same 
basis, and that its form will be the 
form of the Social Science. ‘This is the 
science, from the progress of which (as 
you so confidently pronounce,) the 
united powers of tyranny and error 
already foresee their total overthrow. 
I accept the promise of your works, 
and wait with anxiety for its fulfilment. 
Asan acknowledgment, (for it cannot 
be called a recompence) I send you a 
plan of the course of studies for this 
university, which was presented to the 
Cortes of 1814, in which I am much 
interested. 
The amplification of the sketch of 
our literary history, and the prelimi- 
nary discourse to the same project, are 
by me. You will perceive that the 
principles are yours, accommodated to 
the actual state of our knowledge and 
manners: that many of them coincide 
exactly with those of your Chrestoma- 
thia, and that your elements of juris- 
prudence and legislation, are therein 
proposed for the instruction of onr 
youth. You will, in short, see in it 
our ardent desire to substitute for the 
“ enemy of the understanding,” as you 
eall it, the fundamental truths of 
knowledge. 
I send you also, as a fruit of your 
principles, the communication which 
the literary institute of this place has 
lately remitted to the Cortes concerning 
the preliminary title of the code which 
is under discussion, and to which the 
future Cortes will only have to put the 
finishing touch. ‘The existing Cortes 
have not now time to decide upon it, nor 
tocompare it with the civil (Qy. law ?) 
nor with the proceedings or judicial 
digest which the respective commis- 
sioners are now printing ; much less to 
form out of all a connected and uni- 
formly exact whole. 
' Trequest and hope that you will give 
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me your opinion as well ‘upon thése 
opusculi as upon the volume of your 
works which J have sent you in Spanish, 
and which is called here by some the 
Manual of Deputies to Cortes; we are 
indebted for it to your tactic of poli- 
tical assemblies. 
I hope also that you will undeceive 
yourself from the idea that the advice 
which [I have given the governors of 
my country, enjoins a sacrifice which, 
to use your expression, “no man has 
yet been able to bring himself to make.”* 
I trust you will confess that it is not 
superior to those which my countrymen 
have made and are making every day,: 
in order to secure their liberty and in- 
dependence. 
No: We cannot address to our rulers 
the words of St. Luke, “ Ve vodis 
legisperitis quia tulistis clavem scientie : 
ipsi non introtstis, et eos qui introi- 
bant, prohibistis.’’* e 
No: in the actual discussion of the 
penal code, you will find daily proofs 
that this text canuot be applied to 
them. 
Whenever the civil (code, Qy.) falls 
iuto your hands, with what satisfaction 
will you see the gates of legal know- 
ledge opened by your keys, and the 
clouds which have hidden from our 
view civil rights and obligations dissi- 
pated by your luminous theories. From 
the little I have read of the first part, 
1 should adjudge to the members of 
the commission which has composed it, 
a civic crown, did I not fear that this 
judgment of mine might prevent your 
telling me, (as I beg you willdo) what-. 
ever necessary to its amelioration you 
may think practicable and agreeable to 
our usages, and to our form of govern- 
ment. 
And since, as you assure me, your 
sympathy extends to all the Spanish 
people, I entreat you in their name to 
write to your fortunate disciples, what- 
ever reflections fer our good may have 
occurred to you. 
You confess that in this country 
there are not the same obstacles which 
in yours present themselves to the 
adoption of any means conducive to 
that political equality which is recog- 
nized by our constitutions, nor to the 
triumph of reason and justice which 
is now imperiously demanded by the 
progress of information. 
Luke xi. 52. “Woe unto you lawyers! 
for ye have taken away the key of know-~ 
ledge: ye enter not in yourselves, and 
them that were entering in ye cnoprigtir 
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