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To be copied
"afterwards" that the Creator has graciously Vol: 1 Page 41
reduced the rule of obedience to this one
"paternal precept, that man should pursue
"his own happiness. This he says is the
"foundation of natural law: and that
"every action which tends to man's real
"happiness is a part of the law of nature:
"and every action, which is destructive of
"man's real happiness, is forbidden by the
"law of nature."
The reader will easily observe, how much this that this propostion is
last proposition contradicts the preceding part not of a piece of <add>with the rest: & will therefore perhaps</add>
of our author's arguments: and perhaps be less surprised than vexed when
he will be no less vexed than surprised, when in <add>he</add>
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