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a greater crime than another.
Or to again in one of his divine
or natural duties. - the maintenance of Children - A state may exist, a state
did exist, where this was not only no duty, but even a misdemeanor. Where the relation
between Parent & Child was in a manner annihilated; all children being declared
Children of hte State at large, & not of this or that particular Pr Parent.—
In a word;* the declaratory part of a Law, whether divine or human is not not to define what is good or evil, in our author's sense of the word: —if indeed he affixes any determinate sense to them: —much less is it to give the qualities of good or evil; but its business is simply to declare what is hereafter to be lawful or unlawful; i.e. permitted or disallowed by the Legislature: * This much indeed we may fairly conclude: that as the wisdom of all Legislatures, whether human, or divine, is or ought to be employed in discovering what actions will produce happiness, what misery to the lonely, over which they preside: their will is or ought to be employed in enjoining what appears to them productive the one, & prohibiting what appears the other: Yet it does not follow, that their
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