Thus, even if we supposed that there was nothing to criticize in a work attacking prejudice (which we could hope to do only through excessive vanity), I do not think we could find a single man who would approve every aspect of it, especially if the work opposed his prejudices, because it is naturally impossible that a judge who is constantly offended, irritated, and outraged by a plaintiff should give him complete justice, or that he should willingly take the trouble to concentrate his every effort in order to consider arguments that would initially seem to him like extravagant paradoxes or ridiculous paralogisms.