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SECT. IV. Connection.

Thus much for the Laws of Nature and Revelation:
always shirt so have been doing hapless the man that
does not understand them now. These are our foundations!
"Upon these two foundations, depend all human
"Laws". To find them placed on foundations thus
solid and conspicuous, cannot but be matter of singular
comfort and satisfaction.

Between these the supposition and their old crony Human or Municipal Law
for and the supposition without presently the supported that we shall come
to presently, there subsists as is natural to suppose
the shortest a very short sort of intimacy: nor will the nature of that
intimacy and of the terms they are upon with each
other meet with an explanation a whit less satisfactory
that the Laws themselves have had. A short
intimacy indeed, and so strong a likeness now and then
that when Municipal Law has got their livery on his
back as he commonly has when he is about his
business, you would hardly know one from t'other.
Not that poor Municipal Law makes any great figure
in the groupe: the connecting being altogether
of the unequal kind, such as between Patron
and Toad-eater of the lowest form: for the
amiestra inæqualitatis, as it is somewhere called,†

NOTE.

† See that invaluable quintessence of Moral Science; the
Ethic Compend in use used at Oxford.

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