not necessarily included; & supposing the definition to

matter: on the obligation of unconscious

have been just (which it is not) supposing it not to being: on

acts of superiority exercised, and

have mistaken the foundation of Law, for

inferiority allowed, by one, and the same

the Law itself what followed would have been being to himself?

On the free agency of a

consistent enough. But it was a strange attempt being, who is

confined by absolute necessity?

indeed to tack these inferences to our Author's definition of Law.

— To make God for instance +

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prescribe

Laws to himself: that is, be at once

his own

Superior & Inferior: Master & Man: To make

Stones feel obligation; or to make man choose without

choice: will without volition.

The professed design of

our Author is to

methodise & explain" a science which had been hitherto but little

cultivated. — Quod dedit principium

adveniens? I shall leave the reader to answer this question.

Horace too of old talked much about

the

lucidus ordo

. And yet it was reserved to a great Genius

of our own to discover

1800 years afterwards that there was any order at all, in the

very book where this phrase occurs. The

he recommends it. Perhaps our learned Commentator may one day

meet with as able a friend.

At He seems to be a great Admirer of the Ancients

truth

and

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