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1.1 ! root 1: #print ! 2: This is trickier. Read the file "text". Look for a line saying ! 3: "insert file ... here". Delete that line, and in its ! 4: place (after the preceding line) read in the file asked for. ! 5: Then rewrite "text" and type "ready". ! 6: #create Ref ! 7: The severity of the judicial and penal system was partly ! 8: caused by the defects of the police. Only a small proportion of ! 9: criminals were caught, and even when arrests were made, but little ! 10: evidence was collected. The officers, so far from being scientific ! 11: were not even properly professional. For although the constable of ! 12: each village and the watchman of each town were paid to guard peace ! 13: land property, they were yet neither specially fitted nor trained ! 14: for that employment. In a country village the case was even worse. ! 15: For there the magistrates could only afford to hire the part-service ! 16: of a farmer-constable. ! 17: It is a striking fact that until recently democracy never ! 18: flourished except in very small states -- for the most part in cities. ! 19: It is true that in both the Persian and the Roman empires a measure ! 20: of self-government was accorded to local communities, but only in ! 21: respect to purely local affairs; in no large state as a whole was ! 22: democratic government found to be practicable. One essential reason ! 23: is that until recently the means of communication were too slow and ! 24: uncertain to create the necessary solidarity of interest and similarity ! 25: of information over large areas. ! 26: #create inside ! 27: land property, they were yet neither specially fitted nor trained ! 28: for that employment. In a country village the case was even worse. ! 29: For there the magistrates could only afford to hire the part-service ! 30: of a farmer-constable. ! 31: It is a striking fact that until recently democracy never ! 32: flourished except in very small states -- for the most part in cities. ! 33: It is true that in both the Persian and the Roman empires a measure ! 34: of self-government was accorded to local communities, but only in ! 35: #create text ! 36: The severity of the judicial and penal system was partly ! 37: caused by the defects of the police. Only a small proportion of ! 38: criminals were caught, and even when arrests were made, but little ! 39: evidence was collected. The officers, so far from being scientific ! 40: were not even properly professional. For although the constable of ! 41: each village and the watchman of each town were paid to guard peace ! 42: *** insert file "inside" here *** ! 43: respect to purely local affairs; in no large state as a whole was ! 44: democratic government found to be practicable. One essential reason ! 45: is that until recently the means of communication were too slow and ! 46: uncertain to create the necessary solidarity of interest and similarity ! 47: of information over large areas. ! 48: #user ! 49: #cmp text Ref ! 50: #log ! 51: #next ! 52: 61.1a 10
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