The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . rous there isin law, whereas the judge has not the right to feel this. But I am speaking as if laws,clumsyand barbarousas they are, were at least clear and precise. Butmuch is necessary for them to become so. The gramarye of a wizard would be easy to under-stand compared with many of the articles in ourcodes and case-law. This difficulty of interpretationhas greatly contributed to the establishing of diversdegrees of jurisdiction, and we admit that what themanorial court has not understood the Parliamentarygentlemen will make clear. It is expecting a greatde
The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . rous there isin law, whereas the judge has not the right to feel this. But I am speaking as if laws,clumsyand barbarousas they are, were at least clear and precise. Butmuch is necessary for them to become so. The gramarye of a wizard would be easy to under-stand compared with many of the articles in ourcodes and case-law. This difficulty of interpretationhas greatly contributed to the establishing of diversdegrees of jurisdiction, and we admit that what themanorial court has not understood the Parliamentarygentlemen will make clear. It is expecting a greatdeal from five men in red robes and square caps,who even after having recited the Vent Creator arestill subject to error ; and it is better to acknowledgethat the highest court judges without further appeal,for the sole reason, that the others were exhaustedbefore recourse was had to this. The prince is him-self of this opinion, for he has a judgment-seat *above the Parliament. * The institution styled /// de justice, bed of XXII JUSTICE {concluded) Y good master looked sorrowfully atthe flowing water, an image of thislife, where all things pass andnothing changes. He pondered forsome time and then continued ina low voice : That point is of itself, my son, an insurmount-able perplexity to me, that it is needful that justiceshould come from judges. It is clear that theyare interested in finding guilty the man whomthey at first suspected. Esprit de corps, so strongamong them, pushes them to it, and so you maysee throughout their procedure how they brushaside the defence as importunate, and only allowit a hearing when the prosecution has donned itsarms and composed its countenance, and has, infact, contrived to assume the air of the Goddessof Wisdom. By professional feeling they are 213 214 THE OPINIONS OF inclined to see guilt in every accused person, andtheir zeal appears so alarming to certain Europeannations that, in important cases, they give themthe help of twelve
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