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INTRODUCTION Term Law abused.
How what manner from uniformity observed a Law as the cause of it came to be imagined. 1st Upon the commission of such and such acts
there was a certain quantity of unhappiness
produced or supposed to be produced.
2. The consequence of this unhappiness so
produced was a note of displeasure or disapprobation
placed upon the act producing
it either the individual happiness in question was produced by the individual in question 1st by those in whom it was produced
or next by those who seeing how being witnesses to it's production
in the former case, might conceive themselves to be
liable to the situations of which being exposed to suffer acts
of the like kind.
3. The consequence of that displeasure was
a 2nd lot of unhappiness retorted upon the authors of
the 1st by the persons displeased Actions and forbearances of the same kind consider'd in as much as they resembled each other, gave the idea of uniformity.
4. This 2d or reflex of unhappiness
thus found to be consequent upon being generally preponderant over the immediate pleasure
which was the original determining motive
to the act, became an motive for the omission
of the act, which being more powerful
than that for the commission of it, operated
accordingly
5. From the continual sence of this preponderancy, first taught by experience, thence formed into a maxim, & that maxim from time to time confirmed by experiences The result of it all was Here there is a certain uniformity of conduct
produced by in the point in question.
The Will of the Lawgiver enjoining forbidding the thing to be done
added to that secondary which which injured in pain to be inflicted on the doer in case of its being done was a cause that it was not done. Here then
in respect of an act of that species is a certain
uniformity produced an uniformity of abstinence
In like manner one sees how in other instances
by virtue of the same cause an opposite kind of
uniformity was produced — an uniformity of performances
On the one hand, might be seen agents forbearing
uniformly to set in a certain manner: On the other, the same
agents acting uniformly to in a certain manner.
The expression of the Will was from the very first at least audible: at very same length it became almost always, visible, tangible, ostensible: it existed, it was real. In general replied Chemmis to the inquisitive Pythagorus Philonomus property is safe in Egypt: that the cup which a
man has made, another may not ravish from him:
the work continues uniformly, unless with by his consent,
the property of the workman. Whence came this,
Chemmis? It was by Law Pythagoras Philonomus. It
was by the will word of our great Law giver. Osiris. It was they
who appointed, & published it as his pleasure, will that if any
man clandestinely by force invaded the property of another
that man should suffer Death. Harrassed by the
perpetual inroads of unpunished rapine, and enlighten'd by the
wisdom of that venerable sage, the heads of families
resolved with themselves that this his words should not be varied. One day By solemn appointment, they met together in the of the Law. They
met together: & appointed they elected those among them who should
execute the menace of it upon all delinquents.
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