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SECT. Interprestation. 14.
What they should
have done.

constitutions", (to use our Author's term) as many much in
density and as little in bulk as they could,
the spirit of these crude materials, and to throw
the caput mortuum into the fire! The next
best thing waswould have been, to pick out and preserve in status quo what
seemed to them the best, resolving all along [not]
to know whose they were.nothing of the Authors.

Rash aphorism
of his in Logic.

"In like manner," continues he, "the canon Laws,
"or decretal epistles of the Popes, are all of them
"rescripts in the strictest sense. Contrary to all
"true forms of reasoning , they argue from particulars
to generals."

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Thus much for the questions concerningby whom if any one concerning the interpreter.
we now come to the question which should have come first, the question how? How
We now come
to the question concerningexamine at large
what he says concerning
the method of interpretation.
The words
we are to consider are
.
How is the party who is to act, or any body else
who may undertake it for him to go about to
find out the meaning of the words where it is not obvious? What helps is he to resort to? What
circumstances is he to attend to? "To certain "signs"
saysanswers our author: "which signs and there are five
of them: "these are the words", one: "the context",
two: "the subject matter", three: "the effects and consequence",
four: "the spirir and reason of the Law",
five.

The words , we are to remember, must be given.
And these signs he speaks of, are helps to be taken by which
to "explore" the meaning of those words. The first of

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