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Section 1

The Author's a Account of Lawsin general.

"Law, in general, / says our Author / is a Vol:1. P. 38
"rule of action, which is prescribed by some
"superior, and which the inferior is bound to
"obey."

Having given us this special sense of the thus defined what he means by the term
Now when a man sets out by defining anything term, that is by telling us, that whenever Jus
word law, it was naturalwe had ve a right to expect, that he
would should use it in this sense, and in this sense
only For what is it to does a man do when he defines a word term? throughout the rest of his discourse. but to he tells the his reader, "whenever I What
then must be the surprise of the reader, when
in the very next line he is told, that "this word
is indiscrinately applied to all kinds of action,
whether animate, or inanimate.
"use such a this term I mean to excite in your mind such & such ideas."
If during the course of his argument he makes use of this same term to
raise excite very different ideas very different from those, of which he had at the outset he declared
it the sign, he may be playing at cross-purposes, but he must not pretend
to be reasoning — He is like the reasoner man of Dr supposed by Brown: Essay on Charnet. Sect. v. who he
assures us that he has a wind mill which lays eggs, & breeds young
ones: by a wind mill ones: — meaning by a wind mill all the while a goose or a Turkey.
Let us see now I am afraid whether how far our learned Judge has not is rational now & then apt to put windmills

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