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To be copied
of the Law: A position of all true morality. than which <add>the most destructive of the peace of Society, & consequently that I ever remember to have . Fo </add> For if the end of all sound legislation,
is, to augment social, and individual
happiness: if the essence of morality consists
in cooperating to this end; then
surely, the man who supposes, that the
obligation to obey the will of the legislature
acting to this end, to be less than the greatest
of all obligations:- does, as much as
in him lies , destroy the peace of Society,
and therefore destroys all true morality.
—[I will not do so much injustice
to our author's heart, as to suppose, that
he meant any thing like this. He has <add>been</add> Supposing
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