[36]
But it is even true, although at first sight
it seems hard to believe, that there may be sound
reason why at times a good man who is appearing
for the defence should attempt to conceal the truth
from the judge. If any of my readers is surprised
at my making such a statement (although this
opinion is not of my own invention, but is derived
from those whom antiquity regarded as the greatest
teachers of wisdom), I would have him reflect that
[p. 377]
there are many things which are made honourable
or the reverse not by the nature of the facts, but by
the causes from which they spring.
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