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SECT. V. Law of Nations.

what is now Law at all. a thing that is not Law at all.

A slight short retrospect will serve to satisfy us with what
consistency in part of it is said to be made up out of
the Law of Nature. The Law of Nature is the
Law that there is men are made when in a State of Nature. The
State of Nature is the state men are in when
there are no Municipal [Laws say I no human
Municipal ones says our Author.] The Law of Nations is the
Law that governs the proceedings of Nations towards
each other. Nations States are made such by means of
the Laws, (Municipal ones) that there are in each. We see now
how it can be otherwise than that there should be
these two things: and that these two things should be
the same.

These As to that part of it the one effect & success it has, I mean of so much as is Law
of Nature we need be in no pain about it; as
such it must be "inevitably" conformed to: must therefore in consequence have been inevitably known: must bid us be happy, and
must make us so. As to that part which consists of
compacts there is nothing said. However if we
want to construe them they want construing any of them, we are bid go to the Law
of Nature, and that will do our business.

From somewhat all of this, but from what in particular
is man than I can tell our Author forms two
finishing conclusions with which he finishes. One is that as
the Justinian's show observes. The Law of Nations is what
Natural Reason has established among the Nations: and

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