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a man be called an immoral man but
H/throw this into
a note to last
page/ by
for
counteracting this end H
"Un hommeTo be
" est juste, lorsque toutes ses actions tend
"=ent au bien public:—Thus says Hel=
vetius;and in this short saying, has com=
prised more useful truth,than is con=
tained in whole Volumes of Ethics, com=
piled in the manner of our Author's
introduction. There is, there can be,as
other Criterion, by which a man as=
sure himself, that he is a moral man, but
this: namely that has actions tend to the public good.
and I hope our Author will allow: that obedience to the Laws does tend
to the public good. And yet, our authorhe
can almost make
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