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Law of Nature.

sense, according to the best I am able to make of
it is, either simply and without exception, that
we should not give pain to any one at all;
or else that we should not, I.e: ought not
to give pain to any one but when we ought.
Of these two interpretations the first would
be apt, I doubt to make it rather puzzling
to us what to think of several professions
hitherto thought useful ones: for example, those
of the judge, the surgeon, the soldier, and not
forgetting the Hangman. The other would, I fear, make
it full as puzzling to us to find any thing
in this sagacious precept that could Per force serve a
man as a rule.

Of the 3d and last of these percepts viz: "we should
"render every man his due", the meaning, I
suppose, is, either, that we ought to render him
what we ought to render him, we ought to do,
once more, what we ought to do; (for this edifying and
sense is all that belongs incontestably to any
of them) or else that we should forbear to violate
his property: that is, should forbear to deal with any thing which
the law ( as I should call it, the municipal
law as our author calls it) shall have declared

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