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have summoned Plato
Tully & Horace
to give their testimony.

I might have proved [in a manner not to be gainsaid refuted]
from the concurrent sentiments of all conjunct authorities of Horace,
Cicero, & others the wisest of the antiquity ancients, that before
men had laws they lived without them.that in a state of Nature there were no such things as Laws: after which I might have descanted learnedly upon the Laws of Nature.

I might have have enlisted Right Reason in
my service; and called in the "nature essence of things" to
my assistance.

I might have proved to the satisfaction of all
who had no suspicions of the contrary; reverse by asserting that
a variety of different forms of words that has ,
or that has
none. the
of every kind of crime.
I might have erected my own foundationless unscrutinized into
Laws of nature.
All this he is in no good likelyhood of finding,
whose care is how he m not how he may
discover truth, but how he make keep well with his possessions.
These attentions he must be resolved to ,
taking his chance to be paid for it in esteem by
the more generous heart of that profession, & of
by the public.
By any other than a man of that profession this

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task will not easily be accomplished, nor of
this profession, but by him who will shall will remember
that he was a man and an englishman
before he was a Lawyer.
Something
It seemed to me however, that if I would
contribute to dispell instead of augmenting
the confusion in which the principles of the
science lie envelopped involved, something [a
little] less unintelligible than all this was necessary —
something that should....
I accordingly set myself to extricate from
this confusion, that and to which human actions should by the Laws
should be made to tend: the measure of their tendency &
of their deflection: the different forces which
do or might operate to promote such tendency
or such deflection. The means of applying
I might have made by my obeisance in one
page to Justice Right & in the next: to Policy I might
have declared myself in one page the stern

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