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To be copied the laws of nations. For, in the first place
he has confounded it Law with a compact, or
agreement, which, yet he afterwards declares Vol 1. P.45
to be different, and distinct from a law. "For
"a compact (says he) is a promise proceeding
from us: and law is a command directed
to us: the language of a compacts
"is: I will, or I will not do this: that of a
"law, thou shalt, or shalt not do this." And,
again, when he sends us to the law of nature
to find out the law of nations; and to
construe compacts, treaties &c: When he tells
us "the civil law has very justly observed —
"that quod naturalis ratio inter omnes homines
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