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Every account of
the pretended Laws
of Nature must be
confessed. But
if it is possible for
< one to be more so
than another, it is
that of Montesquieu
If it is possible that one account of the pretended
Laws of Nature can be more than another
it is that of Montesquieu Darkness itself is Light to it.
Ask him what are the Laws of Nature? they are
such steps certain , which have something to do
with a state of Nature. What, are they rules
perhaps concerning the steps to be taken by a man in
the State of Nature? No, no rule in that case
they are the steps themselves — what they are Right —
then the steps which which in such a state ought to take? in this
state? not so — ought and ought not have nothing are out of the question
to do with the matter in the affair — they are the steps
they men would take — They will, then what
Take a number of
men, put them into
a state of nature are they then at last? you shall hear — third are 4 of them. In the
1st place, those of ( men ) <add> Put men in a state of nature would run away
Men, if there come
a hundred of them<lb?> would all shew
each other one another a fair
pair of heels</note from one another as hard as they could :
and there is peace, & this is one Law that is one Law + of
turn. In the next place they could eat look
their about them for victuals — & then in a second for you <add> to the Law third is for that another & there is a second for you
In that 3d place they would — in that they
would, that is I suppose the more &
could making to each other a certain
whole species they his Law goes no farther than
to the getting together of persons of different bringing the Sexes to a meeting?
Sexes
And how he comes to take no notice of one one common
way enough of two persons getting acquainted
which is by one of them betting or being deliver' of the other.
One might desire him, before he undertook to
tell us how they his men and women would behave, to settle with
himself how what sort of people he would have & tell us in plain lang in what condition they should make their
& in what condition? whether he would <add>appearance — What sort of he could have
<note> how & in what plight
he would put them
Whether he would produce and the common
way of generation, or as Adam was: Whether
How then he would
have then been produced<lb/. — Whether as
God made Adam was, or in
the common way they should be he would have them young or old, respectively strong or weak
full or fasting clothed or naked fresh or weary? — whether he would have fear
of them or manner of them? whether they should he would
all of them came from <gap/?> one another have this all <add> who since then all of to each other bolt in
from the clouds at once, or only one 2 or 3 drop in by two's and three's
only at a time?
To almost any of these questions<lb?> a difference<lb?> and the answer, says
make a difference
in the result in
favour or in disprovance
of this theory.</note>
One might ask him whether he has taken the
spirit as would as if he has taken the words of Hobbis's question?
And whether therefore his child view of nature the people in question are in touch an established
Society or no when after having been
INTRODUCT. Montesquieu's Laws of Nature.
It is not to my
purpose to examine
the truth or the of this
representation: I have
nothing to do but wish
my business is only with
the precision &<lb?> the consistency of it
<Add>as far as it is game
I shall therefore
pass over innumerable
questions that
might be put
against what it seems they are always making a
other now Au sentiment de su foiblesse, l'Homme jpoinderoit le sentiment de
ses besoins. Ainsi une autre Law naturel
serrit celle que lui inspirerrit de chircter
de se pourrrir
In the 3d place to the that those of different sexes The man & woman would
and woman a certain request begin making a certain little request to one another the natural
to one another: same they are you secure them always making now:</add> with the
they would make: and this is a 3 new makes three
for you and now you have Law the 3d.
One might heap
question upon question
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