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<p>Montesquieu had said, — "<foreign>L'homme comme | <p>Montesquieu had said, — "<foreign>L'homme comme | ||
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être physique, est ainsi que les <sic>autrescorps</sic><!-- two words, but Bentham has written as one -->. | être physique, est ainsi que les <sic>autrescorps</sic><!-- two words, but Bentham has written as one -->. | ||
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gouverné<!-- Bentham has written an accent over last e, but actually none should be written in reality. Should you add the accent and add to list of irregular spellings, or ommit the accent and assume flaw in knowledge or simply a mistake? --> par des loix invariables: — | |||
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comme être intelligent, il viole sans cesse | comme être intelligent, il viole sans cesse | ||
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les loix qui Dieu a | les loix qui Dieu a etablies</foreign>." Our author | ||
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<add>following the general idea of his leader,</add> did not attend to this distinction, but | <add>following the general idea of his leader,</add> did not attend to this distinction, but |
To be ommitted his the conclusion is consequent. But the
same conclusion will not follow from
our Author's definiton of law: the word
is the same in both, but the Ideas are totally
different.
Montesquieu had said, — "L'homme comme
être physique, est ainsi que les autrescorps.
gouverné par des loix invariables: —
comme être intelligent, il viole sans cesse
les loix qui Dieu a etablies." Our author
following the general idea of his leader, did not attend to this distinction, but
reducing man to the simple State of a Physical
being, has left him no more choice no more free-agency than
assurtains to a Stone, or a piece of timber. "The
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