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SECT. VI. Municipal Law.

influences the Will by presenting motives that subsist
already: Law influences the Will by creating motives
that did not subsist before: these motives take away
our liberty just as much in the one case as in another.

"Counsel", it seems, "we are at liberty" we have the option to follow or
"not as we see proper; and to judge upon the reasonableness
"or unreasonableness of the thing advised:
"whereas our approbation obedience to the Law
"depends not upon our approbation" (he had better
have said option) but upon the maker's will. "Counsel
"is a matter of persuasion; law is a matter of injunction:
"counsel acts upon the willing; Law
"upon the unwilling also".

Of all this well-polished [piece of[ confusion, the
last proposition is that which⊞ ⊞ approaches nearest to being intelligible: is most intelligible:
and which accordingly appears most plainly to be
not true. When a man does what's commanded
him, he is more willing to do it I suppose,
than to let it alone: else do it he would not
when he does what's counselled him, the case,
I take it is much the same. On hand A few words more
may be pardoned to clear up this confusion.
Counsel influences as well as Law, Law as well
as Counsel make men willing to do that which
in consequence of such Laws Counsel or such Law
is done by them rather than to let it alone or otherwise: however
reluctant to do it, that is however willing to do it let it alone were
things otherwise than as they are. Both influence the

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