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To be copied& yet till it is notified it wants one essential
property of a Law.#

as before our Author mistook the principles
imprest upon matter for Laws, so here he has as we have
seen at the end of the second Section he
again mistook a principle imprest upon
man for a Law given to him.

Our author's next absurdity inconsequence is making the law
of Nature, (which is a meer non entity, & the
law of Revelation the groundwork foundation of all municipal
Law. The Law of Nature we have shewn
to be a meer creature of the Brain. And As
to that principle of the desire of happiness which he mistakes for a
Law, it its certain no human Law given ever did, our ought to oppose it
ever could mean to go against it Nor indeed did ever any human legislator propperly. The greatest tyrant
when he intones the most tyrannical Law,
as does not me it, so far from opposing this principle applies to it: & demands obedience
by proving that obedience will produce
the greatest quantity of happiness: & if he cannot
persuade a man to think so he is sure to be
disobeyed. — He the Jackal, a tyrant does In a state of nature this each
But not so much offend against the principle of individual, unconnected with others: can easily discern <add>what</add>

# The intelligent reader will not consider this
distinction between a Law & a principle as a
mear dispute about words. Or if he does
he will conclude with Dr Brown "that a history
"of Logomachies well executed would be no unedifying
work."Essay on Characteristics Essay. II. Sect. ii.

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