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To be omitted unintelligible to a man of common —
understanding.

Our Author seems to have been led into this
inaccurate use of the term law, by a servile
imitation of Montesquieu. Montesquieu
had said before him, "Tous les êtres ont leurs
"loix, la divinitè a ses loix, le monde materiel
"a ses loix, les intelligences superieures
"à l'homme ont leurs loix, les bêtes ont leurs
"loix, l'homme a ses loix." But then Esprit des loix. livre prem: Chap prem:
Montesquieu had given a different diff
definition of law: he had said, "les loix sont les
"rapports, qui derivent de la nature des choses."
and, supposing this definition to be just,
supposing it not to have mistaken the his
foundation of Law, for Law itself, then the

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