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One cannot help trembling for our author in this
place , to think how near he was for once to badly intelligible:
nor admiring him for the pains he must have
taken to avoid it. With This might have been the
case after Two alterations: might have made him so. If [+] [+] in the first place instead of Ethics
the words "Ethics , or Natural Law" had been put the
words "Critical Law" or "Critical Jurisprudence".
and instead of what follows there , what follows here. p. 1.
"For the several Systems articles into which it is"
say rather might be "branched in our Systems , amount to no more than
"demonstrating , that this or that action tends to
"man's real happiness, and therefore very justly
concluding that the performance of it", might
" to be either commanded or allowd of for the case is)
" by the Municipal Law of the Country . where
it so tends; "or, on the other hand, that this or
"that action is destructive of man's real happiness ,
and therefore "that the" Law of Nature Municipal Law
"ought to "forbid it".

This, will would not only be <add>have been intelligible : but and not only so,</add> after the proper limitations shewing
what actions destructive of happiness might
be prohibited without a greater or equal portion of happiness
being destroyd by the prohibition then
by the act prohibited [+], would have been [+] [+] not more intelligible than just. as
Such as it is intelligible.+

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	056	Info in main headings field	law of nature
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / d10 / f11 / d12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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