★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
To be omitted
But having our Author to descant at his ease, on the Action
of inactive matter; on the obligation of unconscious
Being; on acts of
involuntary manner: it must signify,
that man, when he is said to obey laws
of his creator, or to be bounden by them, has
no other kind of obligation, than the stone
has, when it gravitates to the center: or in
other words, that the laws of his Creator do,
by some natural violence, so constraining him,
as to render it impossible for him to act otherwise,
than as they direct. And indeed, in
another place, our author declares this to Vol. 1 Page 57.
be the strict sense of obligation. Yet however
Variously the word obligation may
Page 57 have been used, it has always supposed a
power in Ag
the Agent either to act or not to</del>
2 11
Identifier: | JB/096/002/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
096 |
comment on the commentaries |
||
002 |
|||
001 |
|||
collectanea |
4 |
||
recto |
c11 f2 / c12 / c13 / c14 |
||
168 |
[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]] |
||
[[notes_public::"to be omitted" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
31006 |
||