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Before we can
To make us understand what cure the Laws of
Nature, if any such there be, we must understand
what is meant by the State of Nature.
When Divines talk of a state of Nature, they
mean by it that State or Condition, in which
they generality suppose all the generality of Mankind to have been before
the prosaic Dispensation, & in which they
suppose that part of Mankind still to be continue,
to whom the Mosaic of Christian dispensations
are unknown. But was it allowable
in our author to use the term in this
But our author cannot have used the term in this
sense: can it sense because in this sense it cannot with any propriety be
applied in this sense in a Treatise
on Jurisprudence. How so? Does the Author never use his words in any sense but the proper one? When Lawyers talk
of a state of Nature,if they mean any
thing by it, they must mean that state
or condition in which men existed
or would have existed before their
entrance into Society: or which is the same thing before their
submission to any positive Laws.*
Now

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