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thus binding upon all. And were we thus binding upon all. I have a sort And yet I have an
sort of pressentiment that our author will be as much
even to suppose, what, after this account puzzled to tell us, what this law of Nature is, as of old
of it, is too much to suppose, that here, and The Recorder of London was puzzled to tell William
there an individual, had not arrived at Penn# <note>#See trial of William Penn & William Mead at the new <add>old 1670 Bayley. a. d. - 1670</note> what the common Law was, who This "troublesome and impertinent fellow to use the</add>
the knowledge of it: still in every nation:— working recording words was impertinent enough <add>words of that humane Recorder/ took it into his head,</add>
in every large assemblage of men, thism So believe that common <add>a law which war even after thirty or forty years study aman can not make could not be madeintelligible to a common ca-pacity, waswas </add>
would be seen some Principles will must be known must be be allowed added text hard to believe <add>be understand could not with any</add>
some permanent maxim, which could In a word, it must make not a proprity be called common Law only by some
be the common ground work of every legislation <add>to be the quaint conceit <add>the one of an etymologist — who derived aslucus a' non lucendo.</add>
upon earth: There would be some one It must be the one <add>But as to As this law of Nature; it which was coeval with & to be binding over all mankind. was coeval with mankind it was dictated</add>
general Criterion, to which all nations would do by a Legislator, who could neither err himself, nor lead others into error, we shall certainly find it in <add>that every nation in every large</add>
appeal as the measure of right, and wrong. assemblage men, has preserved it as the common groundwork of all every their <add>its own laws, and appeals to it as the general criterion of</add>
Before our Author can take to himselfassume the credit right and wrong
Now where are we to look for this; shall we
of having found out this general criterion, he mustgreat law of nature, universally
binding and universally obeyed take a wider circuit than the narrow limits of a little island.
Let him go to Sparta, where theft was permitted, allowed, may applauded
Unluckily our Author has not told us in what<add>We</add>

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c15 / c16 / c17 / c18
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31009
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