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2) Law in general. Inserenda.
if it had been seen that the would are what if the appearances had been seen to err
from them at the time would not ever have been laid down:
and if the appearances are unruly and go astray
afterwards, the remedy is easy: as there was one
rule for the conformity, so there is now another
for the erring. The truth is, God as to the appearances
themselves God made them, no body disputes without dispute
it: but as to the rules concerning them, or the
Laws if they must be Laws by our Author's leave it is we ourselves that make
them.
No II NOTE.
From p. 9.
[a] This epithet "physical," as applied to Laws of Nature,
I am sensible is but an awkward one: physical being
nothing but Greek for natural. But these two
sorts of laws if they must be laws, are it is plain
as different as can be. They required to be distinguished
in their names and I could find us better names
for the purpose than these: The word physical, [we know]
stands as we know frequently opposed, we know, to moral
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