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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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