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INTRODUCTION,
BY DR. ZOFFL.
Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere Divos.
While this Essay to investigate the question of the Spanish
succession with historical and legal criticism, was in the
press, M. Sigismond Schmerber, bookseller of Frankfort-
on-the-Mayn, published an anonymous pamphlet, under
a similar title, treating of the same question, with equal
frankness, and, like Tacitus, professing perfect impartiality,
6C Mlhi Galba, Otho, Vitellius, nec beneficio nec injuria cogniti.”
The logical skill with which the pretensions of Don
Carlos are defended in that pamphlet, gives it an import-
ance which obliges me to take some notice of it; though,
the author, by withholding his name, has secured an advan-
tage which my principles do not allow me to share with
him.
But the conclusions at which he arrives are directly op-
posed to those which conviction has forced upon me as the
result of my investigations. The appearance, however, of
that historical dissertation has given me peculiar satisfac-
tion, for truth must be a gainer by the development and
a
BY DR. ZOFFL.
Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere Divos.
While this Essay to investigate the question of the Spanish
succession with historical and legal criticism, was in the
press, M. Sigismond Schmerber, bookseller of Frankfort-
on-the-Mayn, published an anonymous pamphlet, under
a similar title, treating of the same question, with equal
frankness, and, like Tacitus, professing perfect impartiality,
6C Mlhi Galba, Otho, Vitellius, nec beneficio nec injuria cogniti.”
The logical skill with which the pretensions of Don
Carlos are defended in that pamphlet, gives it an import-
ance which obliges me to take some notice of it; though,
the author, by withholding his name, has secured an advan-
tage which my principles do not allow me to share with
him.
But the conclusions at which he arrives are directly op-
posed to those which conviction has forced upon me as the
result of my investigations. The appearance, however, of
that historical dissertation has given me peculiar satisfac-
tion, for truth must be a gainer by the development and
a