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To be omitted his the conclusion is consequent. But the
same conclusion will not follow from
our Author's definiton of law: the word
is the same in both, but the Ideas are totally
different.
Montesquieu had said, — "L'homme comme
être physique, est ainsi que les autrescorps.
gouverné par des loix invariables: —
comme être intelligent, il viole sans cesse
les loix qui Dieu a etablies." Our author
following the general idea of his leader, did not attend to this distinction, but
reducing man to the simple State of a Physical
being, has left him no more choice no more free-agency than
assurtains to a Stone, or a piece of timber. "The
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