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1 The Primary Will Declares announcesthe conduct to be
preferred — The Secondary Will creates the
Interest, creating this motive for preserving it — An interest, a
Motive, is either Pleasure or Pain —
The Secondary Will is therefore an
announcement of a certain conditional allotment of
pleasure or pain dependent upon the
pursuance or non-pursuance of this contract
which is the subject of the primary will.
The question now is, how this allotment is
to later affect. The act of Volition itself will
not produce it — The Pain & Pleasure
are physical instruments <add></add> to be produced
by physical instruments. The physical instrumentality
of some person must therefore
be called in The next act of volition must
therefore be an order upon some 3d person
to produce in the object of the Primary
& secondary volitions the allotment of pain or pleasure expressed
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1 by the Secondary one, according to the contingency
upon the conditions expressed in the primary.
We and to
into the nature of a Law
3 Our definition, not finding it within the compass
any more than the Design of it, to
determine the right of making laws, carries
no such pretensions on the face of it.
It even disclaims it: For it is as useful
often to point out what you cannot do,
and what you think you need not do,
as what you have done.
The business at present is to know what a law is when
it is made, that is to understand it's naturecontents:
it is not to understand by whom and in what
manner it was made, which is to know to
know its' authenticity. The authenticity
of a law is a question extrinsic exterior to and independent of [that of]
its contents. A law made by me, would
not be authentic: because the nations are not in the habit of obeying or executing laws of my making in that sense it would not be a law: but I or any one might make our instrument from having the same contents as, and from whence the notion of a law would be as fully seen as from any
that ever passed the sceptre.
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Law what
2 P / end. - Law Vestibule. We have now seen what a law is:
we have delineated /sketched out our idea description of it: if it
is clear and accurate, we shall see presently without
found no Difficulty in Determining what it meant difficulty what is not a our Law: More phantoms
which under [the name of Laws] this imposing name
have so long distracted mens conceptions, will fly from before our hopes.
[before us, as . . . . . . . before the
morning sun.]
Having detected their inanity, we might
got so much footing now discuss them - yet as they leave having so
INTROD. Ch. ... of Laws. What a Law is [BR.
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2 long, and in spite of every thing we can do
will probably continue to hang so much
longer on men's imagination, and infest their
discourse, it may not be altogether useless
to explain their nature and generation.
we shall be able more . . . . . securely to deal
with them, if besides knowing what they
are not, we know them for what they
are.
3Law is a Will says Dr Blackstone
at the same time to take the directory
and Sanctions parts alone, it is
already 2 wills; to take what he calls the remedial
it is God knows how many wills
besides.
Superior power"
which it pretends undertakes to clear
up the obscurity, only removes it staves it off a step farther:
the idea of superiority, to the purpose
of making laws, is not a whit more explicit
than that of the a Law itself.
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