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motives to act or not to act. — <add>In short This principle is to man
what the moving power is to matter. It</add> See note he would, probably have rescinded to two at least
cannot be called a Law: nor in a word is
there any such thing as a Law of Nature
of his own immutable laws of nature, because
he would have seen, that the ideas of honesty,
and propriety property could not exist previous to a State
of a Society: and therefore that the desire of happiness of
man we could not lead man, to search after,
and pursue the honestum, and oecumenique:
he would probably have substituted in the seen that Montesquieu
place of his own immutable laws, the rules
laid down by Montesquieu, because he would
have seen that the desire of happiness, would
have led many in his individual, unconnected
State to obey all, and every of the precepts there
laid down. And having thus conducted man to
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[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
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