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But baring our Author to descant at his ease on the action
of inactive matter; on the obligation of unconscious
Being; on acts of

involuntary manner: it must signify,
that man when he is said to obey laws
of his creator, or to be bound in by them, has
no other kind of obligation, than the stone
has, when it gravitates to the center: or in
other words, that the laws of his Creator do,
by some natural violence, so constraininghim,
as to render it impossible for him to act other-
wise, than as they direct. And indeed in
another place, our author declares this to Vol. 1 Page 59.
be the strict sense of obligation. Yet howe-
ver Variously the word obligation mayPage 57
have been used, it has always supposed a power in Ag the Agent either to act or not to



Identifier: | JB/096/002/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

002

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c11 f2 / c12 / c13 / c14

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be omitted" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31006

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