The Telephone Appeals (January 24-February 8, 1887); Amos E. Dolbear et al., Appellants the Molecular Telephone Co. et al., Appellants the Clay Commercial Telephone Co. et al. the People's Telephone Co. et al., Appellants the Overland Telephone Co. E
The Telephone Appeals (January 24-February 8, 1887); Amos E. Dolbear et al., Appellants the Molecular Telephone Co. et al., Appellants the Clay Commercial Telephone Co. et al. the People's Telephone Co. et al., Appellants the Overland Telephone Co. E
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...Hill that made us do it. It was that Drawbaugh business that brought us to terms. We were so afraid that that mutilation of our record to our injury would be discovered by that smart party, that we determined to do something desperate. What we did is described in the other of their two briefs, page 223. This is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...Hill that made us do it. It was that Drawbaugh business that brought us to terms. We were so afraid that that mutilation of our record to our injury would be discovered by that smart party, that we determined to do something desperate. What we did is described in the other of their two briefs, page 223. This is the most convincing of all, --it is called the "Supplemental Brief,"--because this descends to the very basis of human conduct, and reveals the springs of human action. Nothing is so certain a test of human conduct as to unveil the springs of human nature. Like causes produce like effects. We know what gravity will do. We know what the human animal will do, under certain impulses; because our experience has taught us that. Therefore, this philosopher touches the very springs of this action and lays bare the very secrets of our hearts. Let me read it. What a head! "Crime breeds crime. A foul deed perpetrated in silence and secrecy draws around a man an invisible line that separates him from his fellows. He is thenceforth set apart as the especial victim of circumstances. He is arrayed in a never ending but unequal conflict with the terrible Nemesis of retribution. The stern necessity is laid upon him of unceasing vigilance, of daring unscrupulousness, and of reckless effrontery in the commission of further offenses; for only thus can he stave off the inevitable end. Mr. Bell, notwithstanding his transcendent intellectual abilities, proves no exception to the rule. There is evidence in this record, ample, complete and demonstrative, that subsequent to the 10th day of April, 1879, a crime of the most atrocious character was committed in the Patent Office at Washington; that this wasdone for the sole purpose of covering up and concealing th...
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