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4)

Comm. Miscell.

Under pain of being excluded debarred from the (benefits of) what is
thought the only liberal education.

Till some rule is given for distinguishing a Law that
is so bad as to be contrary to a Law of Nature
from one that is simply bad without being contrary
to a Law of Nature, every Law that is
a bad one must be deemed to be contrary to a Law of
Nature. (Now when a man speaks of any Law
as being a bad one, he means one that he thinks
bad.) Now what any man means who speaks of a
law as being a bad one, is such an one as he
thinks so: in short any Law he does not like.
Bad any and good being words that necessarily refer to
the opinion of liking of him who uses them.

When therefore a man is told that he ought to
transgress every human Law that is contrary to
the Law of Nature, he is (as good as) told neither
more nor less than that he ought to transgress
every human Law he does not like: or at least,
every Law he very much dislikes. This is, in a
manner every Law which there can be any use in
making. For as to a Law mode of conduct which a man does like,
there can be no use in making a Law to oblige
him to pursue it. Thus it is that this doctrine,

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Box	068	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
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