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ERRONEOUS DIVISION - its source and consequence (12
GROTIUS
The errors, the obscurity, the gratuitous positions, the contradictions, the visionary and
unsubstantial arguments, the enormous voluminousness become almost as good an
evil as any of the rest, with which this above most other subjects of human Intel Intillect
according to by the confession of all has been oppressed, will be found, or I am much
mistaken, to owe their origin to this one simple cause.
To the error, I mean, in which Jurists not less the Theoretical than the pra practical
those who undertook to make composed Systems of their own than those whose p
it was to give an account of those al- ready made, composed of assigning I know not
what unintelligible ends & purposes of Human Actions & Human the Laws
which were are to guide them, either to the express exclusion, or the silent
neglect of the principle of General Utility. An end A principle, to which every human regulation that can be justified is capable of an intelligible justification in an intellige may be by a prosecution of the method above sketched out shewn to bear a manifest subservience.
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