the enjoined pamphlet, on penalty of ten thousand [25]

dollars.

The infringing books, to the number of thirty-eight

hundred or thereabouts, were put under the edge of

the knife, and their unlawful existence destroyed, in

Boston, Massachusetts. [30]

It has been written that “nobody can be both founder

and discoverer of the same thing.” If this declaration

were either a truism or a rule, my experience would [1]

contradict it and prove an exception.