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INTRODUCTION Term Law abused.
How what manner from uniformity observed a Law as the cause of it came to be imagined.
1st Upon the commission of such and such acts
there was a certain quantity of unhappiness
produced or supposed to be produced.
2. The consequence of this unhappiness so
produced was a note of displeasure or disapprobation
placed upon the act producing
it either the individual happiness in question was produced by the individual act in question 1st by those in whom it was produced
or next by those who seeing how being witnesses to it's production
in the former case, might conceive themselves to be
liable to the situations of which being exposed to suffer acts
of the like kind.
3. The consequence of that displeasure was
a 2nd lot of unhappiness retorted upon the authors of
the 1st by the persons displeased Actions and forbearances of the same kind consider'd in as much as they resembled each other, gave the idea of uniformity.
4. This 2d or reflex lot of unhappiness
thus found to be consequent upon being generally preponderant over the immediate pleasure
which was the original determining motive
to the act, became an motive for the omission
of the act, which being more powerful
than that for the commission of it, operated
accordingly
5. [+] [+] From the continual sence of this preponderancy, first taught by experience, thence formed into a maxim, & that maxim from time to time confirmed by experiences The result of it all was Here therefore is a certain uniformity of conduct
produced by in the point in question.
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The Will of the Lawgiver enjoining forbidding the thing to be done
added to that secondary which which injured in pain to be inflicted on the doer in case of its being done was a cause that it was not done. Here then
in respect of an act of that species is a certain
uniformity produced an uniformity of abstinence
In like manner one sees how in other instances
by virtue of the same cause an opposite kind of
uniformity was produced — an uniformity of performances
On the one hand, might be seen agents forbearing
uniformly to act in a certain manner: On the other, the same
agents acting uniformly to in a certain manner.
The expression of the Will was from the very first at least audible: at very same length it became almost always, visible, tangible, ostensible: it existed, it was real.
In general replied Chemmis to the inquisitive Pythagorus Philonomus property is safe in Egypt: that the cup which a
man has made, another may not ravish from him:
the work continues uniformly, unless with by his consent,
the property of the workman. Dialogue Whence came this,
O Chemmis? It was by Law Pythagoras Philonomus. It
was by the will word of our great Law giver. Osiris. It was they
who appointed, & published it as his pleasure, will that if any
man clandestinely by force invaded the property of another
that man should suffer Death. Harrassed by the
perpetual inroads of unpunished rapine, and enlighten'd by the
wisdom of that venerable sage, the heads of families
resolved with themselves that this his words should not be varied. One day By solemn appointment, they met together in the Temple of the Law. They
met together: & appointed they elected those among them who should
execute the menace of it upon all delinquents.
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An uniformity of conduct in The really subsisting Cause of or appearances exhibited by a sensible
being agent, being apparently sensible produced by the expectation of a great
determinate portion ballance of consequential of unhappiness to ensue
at the to him upon an opposite system conduct, not opposite conduct [greater
than the happiness ensuing from it] [+] [+] at the hands of a person certain of a certain description: viz the officer specially appointed by the Law found
upon a declaredation will of another agent, reputed capable of
by the former able to affect such brilliance giving it effect.
2. An uniformity of conduct in a sensible
agent, produced by the expectation of an
undeterminate ballance of consequential opposite obnoxious conduct in case of individually, but certain in specie end used with volition x destitute of volition. unhappiness to be administerd
at the hands of persons uncertain,
upon an opposite conduct founded at upon no any express declaration
but upon either experience or observation
of the like balance of unhappiness frequently administer'd
by persons of such description in the case of such opposite conduct
in former instances.
4.* *3. Case of uniformity produced by expectation of the protection divine sanction not revealed & 4. ... revealed The imaginary cause of An uniformity of appearances exhibited to
beings not apparently not sensible, consequently produced
therefore by no such means as any expectation of consequential
unhappiness
1 *# # Montesquieu's Laws of Nature An uniformity of conduction (or appearance
exhibited by) a being apparently sensible, by
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expectation (instantly presently verified) of instant immediate happiness satisfaction
To all Of all these different systems of appearance
thus differently produced there is no circumstance nothing common
to all of them but that of uniformity
In one of them + + viz the .... only alone we see it has for it's
efficient cause the will of a [distinct] known certain
agent, expressed without which communicated (without which as to
if one else it would be nothing) by certain
signs.
Mean time from this one circumstance common
to them all has
To this efficient cause has been given
then really existing in every the language of every people some name corresponds
to that of Law in our own.
false radiant
From the habit of considering and speaking
of this uniformity in the one instance mentioned
as an effect of originating from Law as a from it's cause, men have
come to commit [assign the same cause to it as an effect
in the other instances] regard it as [proceeding
from] being the effect of a cause of the same kind
if it were real, they have given the same name
as to that real one. This error of theory has been prevented a number of errors of a more practical nature, which errors which we shall now be enabled to expose.
INTROD. "LAW" It's diff.t Senses collated. Dialogus Beging
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