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intimated to us if these spurious rules and precepts
whereby to distinguish them from the genuine. I would
not be sure whether the epithet "abstracted" was
given them for that purpose : considering that how
abstractedness should be the exclusive property of
these spurious ones in contradistinction to such as are
genuine is not easy to conceive, to those who
like Locke , know what they mean by it. All
I can say is, if not for that purpose , I know not
for what other. [+] [+] Not that it is any great matter neither what the spurious are, while the genuine are necessarily conformed to , and as necessarily followed by the happiness they have in view.
These are the people , who prove to you that
a thing ought is commanded by the Law of
Nature (or which is the same thing with them,
ought to be done) because it is fit it should be
done: that is becasue it ought: referring according
to the our Author's account of them + + as our Author tells us "merely
to the fitness or unfitness of things" : unreasonable
, who set a going a mindt of their own
for identical propositions , regardless of the exclusive
privilege the Author is entitled entitles himself to, by the
superior polish he knows hes to put upon his
works for that sort of manufacture.
Over such same surmisers as he calls them Here our — author carries an eye of secret
the Author exalts with a generous disdain complacency over his own labour's , measures
The difference between his and theirs , and exalts
with a generous disdain over those
"vain surmizers". I then Pity been, merits
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