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Ask him what
are the Laws of
nature? They are
such & such steps
which
It is possible that one account of the pretended
Laws of Nature can be more confused than
another, it is that of Montisquiue. In speculating
upon the condition situation of man in a
state of nature (by which state he seems not
to have very well known what he meant) he
thinks of he thought what he they
would do: to steps which he imagines they
would + +(ought or ought
not is what comes
not under his consideration.) take. The 1st is to make And these 4 steps he calls
Laws of Nature. The 1st is to make run away
The from each other, which he calls and this he calls the Law of Peace: The
2d is to eat their victuals: The 3d one knows
not what to make of it consists of 3 or 4 things
jumbled together in the strongest manner imaginable.
People would then come together again,
because each would see that the rest were as
much afraid of him as he of them: and because
an animal (that is the animal in question)
man [+] [+] (For he hardly means
I suppose that 2
men would be glad
to see one another because
two tygers
supposing it true
perhaps, would
be glad to see one
another) naturally feels a pleasure at the approach of another
animal that is people would come together; because they are naturally
disposed to run away from each other, & because
they are naturally disposed to come together
Then says he the chase which the 2 sexes inspire
by their difference would augment this
In this a 2d tie which
animals/men have, of them as well as the 2d which
and who have are only a 2d tie which animals men
have, & the first & only tie that
animals have ? And in another case what was the 1st tie?
And how comes it that men are linked together made to have a desire
There is a certain
set of particulars Rules drawn
from the one proper
nation of things, which
meet with of beings
called Regulations
of Police, which
having got in in
the train of the
Civil Law, ran
riot all of a sudden in the
twentieth chapter,
through off their
& set up
for themselves &
cut a large slice
out of the Belly
of their lender: who
<add>besides this gets a shrewd
rest from another
party of Outlaws
who in the 25. These call themselves
particulars rules
drawn form the
peculiar nature
of things: and in
this particular
the Book
concludes>
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As to the rest one preceives that that sort of a
Law of nature which is imagined from the
conceit of what man would do, or the observation
of which they do do, has nothing to do
with that other sort of a Law of nature which is
supposed from the notion of what they ought
to do, whether they do
What magic is that could raise to such a heighth of reputation could give such reputation
to a work which in the fundamental
part of it opens with such rhapsody: many
just sentiments in detail among the details, a constant flow of
genuine philanthropy, the advantage of coming
the first wit after an eternal dynasty
a brilliant imagination of pedants, and an original case &
of stile. O D'Almbert, feeling panegyrist
of thy departed friend, great was indeed
,/del> his merit: but those wouldst not have
thus written.
<note>Voltaire here seen <a/dd> this
and confessed: and<lbh/> Voltaire therefore has
been accused of envy.
v. Charactere de Voltaitre
peut per lui meme</note>
<note> .. [+] By men of the
same stamp by whom
Montesqueiu as a <add>champion<a/dd>
of truth is holden <add>held in
execration</note>
As to Give in society by a tie which other animals
have not; which other animals have many of them
the said desire of living in society notwithstanding
This is the 2d chapter: the first is unto it stiled not much better.
Let us acknowledge Whinnish
we owe to him by discrediting the gibberish
that went before him weaning men from
Let us do every thing, lest
offer up any thing but the truth for
increase to his shade
Four more sorts of Laws £ 10. Ch. 3 pt. I.p.219.
& classed particular sort of a Law of Nature that Law of natural light, the Law which forms Political Societies; & the Law
derived drawn from the
thing itself.
But it is the 28th Book that contains the Battle
general Royal of the Laws: Tis there that the we have a
following Laws are all set Pell-Mell together Natural Law, a Divine Law an Ecclesiastical or Common
Law, a Law of Nations, a Politic Law, a Law
of Conquest by the ears a Law Civil Law, [] a Domestic
Law, or sorts of Laws, all independent. & to [+]
[+]
such a degree independent,
that they
are eternally at
variance. loggerheads
It is to be observed, that the Natural Law we
have got here is quite another sort of thing from
those Laws of Nature we were told of in the
1st Book — It is no longer of that sort according
to which men actually do or do not do so &
so, but according to which they might or ought
not to do so & so. Would we wish to know the Articles
of it? they are no where set in order he must ride a hunting for them
no where through the chapter formally announced, but start up here
& there just as they happen to be called for.
Would we know their title to this magnificent<lb?> appellation? It is the word of Montesquieu.
Each of these has its
names and is B asked
in at the front door
but there are others
besides whose nobody
knows, & who somehow
or other have
scrambled in at the
window Battle of the Elements
in Malton.
Law Porridge.
so nearly on this
only of the as it
was liable to be
to the other
And lest you should imagine it was the same
power which taking so many different names from
so many divisions of it's object, there are 25
chapters in the Book, the greatest part of which are<lb?> taken up in satisfying you upon the word of Montesquieu
when of two of them one bids you do one
thing & the other of them another which you are to obey
We are told No man can serve
two Masters: here are
8 of them, & all not told.<note>
<note>During this terrible ,
what is the condition of the subject?
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