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9 law of Nature 9
viz. "that " man should pursue his own happiness."
Now al one may venture to appeal to any one
that lives and breathes
whether these a man ever was or will or can be a
man who could do otherwise. That we were destined
to pursue happiness wherever we think we see it is
what we pretty well knew some time before our author told
us. But what we have heard now for the first time
and what we are particularly our obligations to him for are unquestionable
is to learn that it is but to "pursue" [ and have ] and catch.
[If any thing ought to surprize us, after what by this time we have
now seen, there are two things that next follow. what what comes next may do it. One thing is
to see it's all-embracing and "inevitably-conformed-to
"precepts", metamorphosed into arguings.
Another is to learn that "the performance of" "an action" is a
part of a Law. That a Law (this Law of Nature for instance) is a thing that consists of parts of which, the performance of an action is one.
A third is, that every action that is distinctive of
man's real happiness, is of these actions, that are
forbidden by this same Law of Nature: which leaves
foras, for the its only remaining subjects of the prohibition of to the revealed Law Divine &
and the Municipal Laws: in the first place
such actions, if such there are there are any, which as have no concern
with real happiness: in the last place,
those such as which produce it.
"For the several articles +
+ p. 41 to ["forbid it."]
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