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<head>Sect. I. Law in General. 12</head> | |||
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Sect. I. Law in General 12
Unerring rules. rules themselves unerring, rules that do not err, from somthing they
might be thought liable to err from; or rules unerred from.? rules that
the creatures they are given to do not err from. rules that do not themselves
err from any thing, or rules that nothing errs from.
If the rules he means, are rules that do not err themselves, what it
is, supposing for argument sake they did err, what is it he imagines they would err from.? If rules that the creatures do not err
from, whether he is absolutely sure that he could find or imagine
(for it would be too hard upon him to require him to produce, any
such rule.? or whether if he found by chance a creature erring from
one of these his rules, he would not make another rule to suit the
erring.? and whether he would not find out the same sort of rules
for creatures if there were any such, that have chance to govern
them.
These questions, I say would need to be persued to an answer, we
we could say we understood our Author: they would need to be pursued
to an answer (in order to our understanding we we could understand the subject, if understanding
our Author, and understanding the subject were the —
same thing. As it happens it is otherwise: And so I leave them.
Sometimes by dint of good fortune, one may undertand our Author:
at the same time as to understand: the subject be (never) not a jot the
nearer. But if there's no way of understanding the subject, but by understanding our Author; our —
hopes had best be moderate: it is a small portion of understanding
that must content us.
Sect. I. Law in General. 12
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