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Section II Of the Authors account of the laws of Nature.

To be copied
"This will of his maker (says our Author) Vol:1: P.39.
"is called the law of nature". To make this
will a law, it must have been prescribed,
(according to our author's own definition of
law) that is notified to all mankind: And
it is the
that this He speaks of the same will, which our author he had
before said, man, that is all men, must
To be inevitably follow'd it must be inevitably known. inevitably follow as the Rule of Conduct. To give it the properties and force of Law, it must to this will, according to our Author's own definition of Law, have been prescribed, that is notified to all mankind. "Because a bare resolution confined in the breast of the Legislator can never bewithout manifesting itself by some external sign can never be properly a Law. and* *And into accordingly he tells us (p.41) that this law being was coeval "with mankind: being was bindes dictated by God himself: was "binding over all the globe at in all "times countries & in at all times. —
Surely, then it can be no difficult matter to
discover with precision, what this will is,
which has been thus notified to all, and is thus

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Identifier: | JB/096/005/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

005

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c15 / c16 / c17 / c18

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31009

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