Language: English
rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves as they have lately done if a lock let it have been made in whatever country or by whatever maker is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be surely it is to the interest of honest persons to know this fact because the dishonest are tolerably certain to apply the knowledge practicallyand the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance