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< | <p>Montesquieu had said, — "<foreign>L'homme comme | ||
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etre<!-- accent (hat) over the first e --> physique, est ainsi que les <sic>autrescorps</sic><!-- two words, but Bentham has written as one -->. | etre<!-- accent (hat) over the first e --> physique, est ainsi que les <sic>autrescorps</sic><!-- two words, but Bentham has written as one -->. | ||
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.
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Montesquieu had said, — "L'homme comme
etre physique, est ainsi que les autrescorps.
gouverne par des loix invariables:—
comme etre 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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