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§ All comprehensive sketch

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Of the mention made of the above supposition the chief purpose has been to shew that in the view taken of the subject no part of it has been passed over: and that therefore the view thus taken wants not any thing of MS orig. ‘any of thing of’. being what it undertakes to be an all-comprehensive one.

Proceed we now to those suppositions and persuasions the prevalence of which is beyond comparison so much more extensive.

If the cause in question—namely Natural Religion is contributory to human happiness by being contributory to the giving determination or say direction to human conduct, it must be either by contributing /furnishing in whole or in part/ /furnishing or contributing to the furnishing/ to the formation of a directive rule, or by furnishing or contributing to the furnishing inducements for the observance of a directive rule, whether of its own furnishing or furnished from some other quarter—say furnished by some other hand.

N.B. /In this case/ The directive rule will be a rule pointing out [to] human conduct a path, by keeping to which throughout, happiness will be enjoyed in greater quantity than by proceeding either constantly or occasionally on any other path.