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he sees our Author so near stumbling upon
truth, & then immediately flying off
it again, as if he felt horror at the sight
of her: & at again endorsing this only Criticism
of Law & replunging into
at the same time the reader will
observe, that no Law is produced here;
nothing that has been promulgated;
nothing that has been notified.
Pursue your own happiness is not a paternal
State present as our Author so prettily calls it: but
a principle imprest upon us by our creator,
& which whether in a state of Nature,
or in a state of Society constitutes our
all our obligation, that is supplies he all our

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in the following part of our author's introduction,
he sees this only true foundation of natural
law, and indeed of all law in general, again
abandoned to make way for, the unintelligible
cant of false metaphysicks, and falser Theology
End of this Section The remainder to be effaced as transported to Sect.Had he set out by reducing the law of nature
to this paternal rule, that man should pursue
his own happiness: had he then determined
with precision the State of nature to be that
State, which is antecedent to our entrance
into Society, it would have been no difficult
matter to have determined with equal precision,
into how many subordinate rules this
general rule, might have be branched out:

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Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31016
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