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1821 April 3

First Lines?

1. Civil?

Security

First Lines of a proposed Code of Law for any nation compleat and rationalized

Security is the exclusion /non-existence/ of danger.

Danger is a chance of evil: evil considered as contingence

Evil is either positive or negative

Positive evil is either actual suffering or the cause of it

Negative evil is the absence of good,

Good is either positive or negative

Positive good is either enjoyment or the cause of it.

Negative good is the absence of evils

Note

Moral evil is physical evil considered or produced by the agency or operation or agency, positive or negative of human being in certain circumstances. Take away /Suppose the non-existence of/ physical evil you take away moral evil: you have nothing but the name moral evil a set of words having /a combination of signs/, by which nothing is designated.