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thus binding upon all. I have a sort And yet I have an
sort of pressentiment that our Author will be as much
thus binding upon all. And were we
puzzled to tell us, what this law of Nature is, as of old
even to suppose, what, after this account
the <add>a Recorder of London was puzzled to tell William
</add> of it, is too much to suppose, that here, and
Penn what the common Law was, who <add>This "troublesome and impertinent Fellow" to use the</add>See trial of William Penn & William Mead at the new old 1670 Bayley. A. D. - 1670
there an individual, had not arrived at
worthy recorders words was impertinent enough <add>words of that humane Recorder/ took it into his head,
</add> the knowledge of it: still in every nation:
to believe that common <add>a law which was even after thirty
or forty years study a man can not make could not be made intelligible to a common capacity, was was
</add> in every large assemblage of men, this
hard to believe <add>be understand could not with any
</add> will must be known: must be be allowed.
would be seen some ruling Principles
not a propriety be called common Law <add>and to say truth the name does seem only by some
</add> In a word, it must make
some permanent maxim, which would
to be the quaint conceit of an <add>the one etymologist — who derived as lucus a non lucendo.
</add> be the common ground work of every legislation
<add>But as to As this law of Nature; it which was coeval with, & to be binding over all mankind. was coeval with mankind & it was dictated
</add> upon earth: There would be some one It must be the one
by a Legislator, who could neither err himself, nor lead others into
error, we shall certainly find it in <add>that every nation in every large
</add> general Criterion, to which all nations would do
assemblage men, has preserved it as the common groundwork of all
every their <add>its own laws, and appeals to it as the general Criterion of
</add> appeal as the measure of right, and wrong.
right and wrong.
Before our Author can take to himself assume the credit
Now where are we to look for this; shall we
of having found out this general criterion, he must great law of Nature, universally
binding & universally obeyed he must take a wider circuit than the narrow limits of a little Island.
Let him go to Sparta, where theft was permitted, allowed, nay Unluckily our Author has not told us in whatWeapplauded

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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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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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