[xx] NOTE N. 



NOTE M. 



&quot; The light of the understanding,&quot; says Bacon, &quot; is not a 

 dry and pure light, but drenched in the will and affections, and 

 the intellect forms the sciences accordingly. What men desire 

 should be true they are most inclined to believe, and thus the 

 affections tinge and infect the understanding numberless ways, 

 and sometimes imperceptibly.&quot; 



NOTE. N. 



An aversion to alter the law has In all times pervaded certain classes 

 of this profession. 



To the doctrines of Christianity the lawyers were the most 

 violent opponents. They watched him, even lest he should 

 heal on the Sabbath, that they might accuse him. It was a 

 certain lawyer who, professing ignorance of what our Saviour 

 meant by the word neighbour, stood up and tempted Christ, 

 saying, What shall I do to inherit eternal life? which our 

 Saviour calmly explained by the beautiful story of the Good 

 Samaritan : and having explained it, quitted the lawyer, 

 saying, Go thou and do likewise. And we know also what 

 Paul, brought up at the foot of Gamaliel, says of himself : 

 I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things 

 contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth ; which things 

 I also did in Jerusalem : and many of the saints did I 

 shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief 

 priests : and when they were put to death, I gave my voice 

 against them. He did so, and he did more : he attended at 

 the place of execution, and kept, in testimony of his consent 

 to these barbarities, the clothes of the executioners. We find 

 him, in the same tone of repentance and reproach, thus hidict- 

 ing himself, and pleading guilty to the charge : When the 

 blood of the martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, 

 and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them 

 who slew him. 



In the year 1516, Sir Thomas More describes the lawyer 



