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Law of Nature.

"with the peace happiness of each individual, that the latter
cannot be attached but by observing the former;
and if the former be punctually obey'd it cannot
but induce the latter. In consequence of which
mutual connection between justice and human felicity, he
has not perplexed the law of nature with a
multitude of abstracted rules and precepts, referring
merely to the nature fitness and unfitness of things, as some
have vainly surmized; but has graciously reduced
the rule of obedience to this one paternal precept,
"that man should pursue his own happiness." This
"is the foundation of what we call Ethics, or Natural
"Law. For the several articles into which it is
"branched in our systems, amount to no more than
"demonstrating that this or that action tends to
"man's real happiness, and therefore very justly
"concluding that the performance of it is a part of
"the Law of Nature; or on the other hand, that
"this or that action is destructive of man's real
"happiness, and therefore that the Law of Nature
"forbids it".

I have made so many fruitless efforts to catch at
the sense of this smooth and string of unmeaning periods that I must
absolutely give up the attempt. A supposition It seems to set out with

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