The New Testament

If it is a testamentary disposition at all, it is so drawn that it has

given rise to incessant litigation during the last nearly two thousand

years and seems likely to continue doing so for a good many years longer.

It ought never to have been admitted to probate. Either the testator

drew it himself, in which case we have another example of the folly of

trying to make one’s own will, or if he left it to the authors of the

several books—this is like employing many lawyers to do the work of one.

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