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SECT. V. Law of Nations.

A Law in all points necessarily & inevitably conformed to,
serves indeed does as our author observes, to in some degree
to regulate and restrain that Freewill, which
man had has given him "to conduct himself" by "in
all parts of life. [p.39.]

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SECT. V. Law of Nations

When those who know what they mean talk of
a State of Nature, they mean neither more
nor less by it, that the state man is in or
supposed to be in before there are such things
as Laws.⊞ ⊞ This is what those mean by a state of Nature who know what they mean [mean
any thing]. Our Author fancies would fancy for it some
other meaning; and goes about to prove, that
in a state of Nature there are no such things
as Laws. His own Laws, the Laws Natural and Divine, always excepted. Tis as if he were to prove that
a Triangle is a [plain] figure having three
angles.

This done he tells us that Man was formed
for Society; which is incontestable. since he is in it.
That he is not capable of living alone: as is demonstrated
(he said says) by the writers on that subject,
against the examples (he might have added) of Alexander Selkirk,
Peter the Wild Youth of Hanover, Mademoiselle
le Blanc of Champagne, & so many others.
Not that in all this there is any thing to the
purpose.

We have what it depends upon, not what it consists of.

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