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not necessarily included; & supposing the definition to
have been just (which it is not) supposing it not to
have mistaken the foundation of Law, for the
the Law itself what followed would have been
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. 39 prescribe
Laws to himself: that is, be at once his own Superior
& Inferior: Master & Man: To make Stones 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 adveniens?
I shall leave the reader to answer this question. The
Ancients too were fond of talking of Horace too was of old talked much about their lucidus ordo.
And yet it was reserved to a great Genius of the present of our own to discover
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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matter: on the obligation of unconscious
being: on acts of superiority exercised, and
inferiority allowed, by one, and the same
being to himself? On the free agency of a
being, who is confined by absolute necessity?
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