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SECT. 1. Law in General
The Author's Defi-
-nition.
"Law" our Author begins with telling us, "in it's most general and
"comprehensive venue, signifies a rule of action; and is applied
"indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether unionable or
"inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say the Laws of
"motion, of gravitation, of optics, of mechanics, as well as the Laws
"of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which
"is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound
"to Obey."
This is what our Author says, of the word Law: and this or so
much at least as is printed in Italics, is what is intended, I suppose
for a definition of it. NOTE When a man is at the pains of giving us the
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