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matter: on the obligation of unconscious
not necessarily included; & and supposing the definition to
being: on acts of superiority exercised, and
have been just (which it is not) supposing it not to
inferiority allowed, by one, and the same
have mistaken the foundation of Law. For the</del>
being to himself? On the free agency of a
the Law itself what followed would have been
being, who is confined by a absolute necessity?
consistent enough. But it was a strange attempt
indeed to tack these inferences to our Author's definition of Law. — To make God for instance ++ Vol. 1 p.B of prescribe
Laws W-himself: that is, be at once his own Superior
& Inferior: Master & Man: _ To make Slaves feel
obligation; or to tie make man choose without choice:
will without volition.—
The professed design of the Commentaries our author is to methodise
& explain" a science which had been hitherto been but
little cultivated. — Quod dedit principium udeniens ?_
I shall leave the reader to answer this question. The
Ancients too were fond of talking of Horace too was <add>of old talked much about</add> their heiduscodo.
And yet it was reserved to a great Genius of the present of our <add>own to discover</add>
Age to discover, 1800 years afterwards that there was any order at all, in
the very book where this phrase occurs. The he recommends it._ Perhaps our learned
Commentator may one day meet with as able a friend.
At He seems to be a great Admirer of the Ancients truth and
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