Annotation of 43BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L60.2d, revision 1.1

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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