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"we should live honestly, hurt nobody and When this Law was published we know;- "it is coeval with
"render to everyone his due". I believe our are these laws Mankind." By whom we know likewise;- it was by
Author himself would be the first to tell us, God himself:" — But where to whom, &<add>& in what</add>
are all That many of the practices above cited are by terms, we must apply to our Author to learn.—
no means reconcileable to these his immutable As to the first questions;— where this law was published
laws of nature? What consequence will and to whom; our author's account is not so clear
he draw from hence?
The consequence hence appears to me as one could wish. — But after well weighing what
undeniable either that there is no such he is pleased to tell us, it comes out at last that it
universal, uniform, and permanent was not promulgated anywhere, or to any body.
law of nature, as he supposes? of that, if <add>[Speaking of revelation For he says p.42 "that the other (i.e. the Law of Nature)</add>
there is, he has not given us a clear account "is only what by the assistance of human reason
of it? "we imagine to be that Law." <add>/that is the Law of God/ So when this law</add>
The fact is, that the same confusion of ideas, which was thus early dictated, was never formally
the same abuse of terms appear in this, declared: though always known, & always binding
it was always <add>never more than guessed at. This great</add> Law

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	004	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]]]
Marginals		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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