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''Law, which is to be the | <p><note><hi rend='underline'>To be copied</hi></note> Law, which is to be the <hi rend='underline'>foundation</hi> of <hi rend='underline'>all other</hi> Laws | ||
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proves at last to be no more than the deductions of | |||
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<del>every</del> <add>any</add> man's reason, or the dreams of any man's<lb/> fancy.</p> | |||
<p>Not so, says our Author, "for they <add>are eternal of <unclear>every</unclear>&<gap/><gap/></add> Creator has enabled "human reason to d<hi rend='underline'>discover</hi> <del>their eternal</del> them &<unclear>immulate</unclear><lb/> "=<del><gap/>the laws</del> of good &evil so far as they are necessary<lb/> "for the conduct of human actions."- Indeed.<lb/> if we can <hi rend='underline'>discover</hi> <del>them, we can</del>, <add><del>what are</del> these eternal</add>&<unclear>immutable</unclear><lb/>Laws,<del>are,</del> we do something more than <hi rend='underline'>ima-</hi><lb/><hi rend='underline'>gine</hi> what they are. Though one author is<lb/> apt to mistake his own fancier& imaginable<lb/>for discoveries'<add>yet to other <unclear>they</unclear> imaginations&discoveries </add> <del>they</del> are very different things.<lb/> But this power of discovering the eternal & immutable Law, was <del>only</del> given to Reason <unclear>only</unclear><lb/><lb/>when the Law of Nature was in favor with him. <del>our Author. </del> Presumably the Law of <unclear>Revelation</unclear><lb/> gets the first place,&and then the poor Law<lb/> of Nature is left to make itself known as it can. | |||
To be copied Law, which is to be the foundation of all other Laws
proves at last to be no more than the deductions of
every any man's reason, or the dreams of any man's
fancy.
Not so, says our Author, "for they are eternal of every& Creator has enabled "human reason to ddiscover their eternal them &immulate
"=the laws of good &evil so far as they are necessary
"for the conduct of human actions."- Indeed.
if we can discover them, we can, what are these eternal&immutable
Laws,are, we do something more than ima-
gine what they are. Though one author is
apt to mistake his own fancier& imaginable
for discoveries'yet to other they imaginations&discoveries they are very different things.
But this power of discovering the eternal & immutable Law, was only given to Reason only
when the Law of Nature was in favor with him. our Author. Presumably the Law of Revelation
gets the first place,&and then the poor Law
of Nature is left to make itself known as it can.
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[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
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