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Ulysses

coat of arms and appropriate classical motto (Semper
paratus), duly recorded in the court directory (Bloom,
Leopold P., M. P., P. C., K. P., L. L. D. (honoris causa),

Bloomville, Dundrum) and mentioned in court and
fashionable intelligence (Mr and Mrs Leopold Bloom have
left Kingstown for England).
What course of action did he outline for himself in
such capacity?
A course that lay between undue clemency and
excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous
society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms
of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed
homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with
mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to
the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and
personal, to the crown. Loyal to the highest constituted
power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude
his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order,
the repression of many abuses though not of all
simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment
being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in
the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law
(common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers
in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws

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