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10) Law in general

Law of Nations.

is commonly spoken of under the name of the Law
of Nations. All these we shall come to in their
order.

Physical Laws of
Nature. 1st sort.

First as to Laws supposed to be that are, it is supposed observed by natural
involuntary agents in virtue of their inherent powers
alone singly - "Thus," continues our Author "when the supreme being formed the
"universe, and created matter out of nothing, he impressed
certain principles upon that matter, from
which it can never depart, and without which it
"would cease to be. When he put that matter into
"motion, he established certain Laws of Motion, to
"which all moveable bodies must conform". Thus for our Author, Under
Secondly the same description came the Laws of gravitation
mentioned in the former paragraph, if there we
are to look upon as a distinct set of Laws not
included under the head of those of motion title of Laws of motion.

Physical Laws of
Nature - 2d sort.

Secondly, as to Laws that are, it is supposed observed
by natural involuntary agents in virtue of powers
communicated to them in part by voluntary agents
"And to descend", continues our Author, from the
greatest operations to the smallest, when a workman
forms a clock, or other piece of mechanism,
he establishes at his own pleasure certain arbitrary
laws for it's direction; as that the hand shall describe
a given space in a given time; to which law as

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