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Annotation of 43BSDTahoe/usr.lib/learn/editor/L60.2d, revision 1.1.1.1

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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