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Erroneous Division — its Source. and consequences 14
Firm against the silent horrors of Superstition, the clamorous menaces of democratic
fanaticism and the insinuating wiles of interested ambition [allurements
reject with rigor every heterogeneous link those treacherous prompters .. they would obtrude. Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus Vindice nodus Inciderit. Having drawn up holpen up assisted
with you after you the Student to to climb up after you to the heighth vantage ground of Philosophy,
[as Ld Bacon terms it]
of Philosophy you would direct his eye through a
long but strait road strait tho' extended Avenue - to the contemplation prospect of one beautiful & consistent whole.
You will not then be at every turn reduced to say — hoc perquam durum est, sed ita Lex scripta est: very hard is this, but thus the Law is written: but thus, would
you say the Law is written, and this is the reason why it is so — The Subject
would not [then] sooner read in your works the obligations he has contracted, than
the reasons he has to felicitate himself that he has contracted them — His The Judgment
would then be informed at the same time that his memory assisted, curiosity was satisfied and instruction
and satisfaction would go hand in hand together. In assisting his memory he would inform his Judgment:
A Man might then easily with somwhat greater ease than at present somwhat more easily than at present find a better reason than the prejudices of his Education
for the reason Reverence of the Law that is within him. by while he founding that Reverence
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upon it's immoveable and only solid proper Basis, he would learn not to extend it to those
parts of them [to] which [lean not on that] that basis [does not extend]: Nothing contributes more to the confounding of the Student, than a number of divisions taken from different sources and thrown together without notice of the sources from whence they are taken, especially if, as is often the case, the branches of one division are intermingled with those of others. And as the entrance into a work is the part when the divisions of it are made, it happens with peculiar ill-fortune that this confusion presents itself to the Student at the very season when least prepared to resist it's influence gives not it's support equally inaccessible on the one hand [hasty to the blind
Temerity precipitate of that would overturn every thing, on the one hand, and to the Hydrophobia
of innovation on the other, he would see with equal clearness why some parts
established unquestionably upon the Basis should be rivetted for ever, and why others projecting should be cleared away
over it in a tottering vain, to the great weakness weakening of the important Fabric,
should be removed. cleared away.
[But to return to the more immediate subject of this Section — Chapter]
the very germ of the Science, has first shown itself broken out in a threefold division of the
Law, not from it's subjects, as that we have the outlines of which have been delineated
in our last, but from it's origin: so that instead of one connected consistent System of Laws [precepts]
therefore is consistent and the same, we have three different tho if one may say so not always distinct Systems jarring and
crossing each other: at every turn whose ends for any thing that is openly announced propped made out [by the
writers] may be different, and whose dictates and from what is to be collected from the precepts & maxims they allude to
INTROD. Law — Division into Natural, Di [BR] [ ] -vine and Municipal — erroneous.
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