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OBSTACLES DIVINES.
One is that those institutions should be done away, the reason of which hath ceased: where reason hath ceased, practise should be alter'd.
Another is, that those things should be left indifferent by establishment should be lef which are so in their
by own nature are interested to discredit most of those approved & fundamental maxims upon the application which contain the quintessence of which Legislation depends for it's improvement
A third is, that unlimited discussion is fatal to nothing but to error. The spirit of disquisition, which never exerts itself with alacrity, but it exerts itself in all quarters; and never exerts itself in their's, but it [stings them and] throws them into convulsions.
A Strain Sprain which in incapacitates the Judgment from such exertions of those kinds which are as are most useful. A fourth is, that the Authority of chains is nothing worth as the foundation of a practise, when force them to turn aside from those Sickness of which the knowledge of Human Nature is the basis.
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