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 This knowledge of Good and Evil was discovered, even by the Gentiles, to be a divine attribute , though they were unacquainted, probably, with the occasion of its being engrafted in human nature. It must therefore appear, that the agreement or assent of mankind to the moral and eternal Laws of God (which the Baron and other Civilians commonly call “the Laws of Nature”) may very fairly be presumed and admitted as a natural effect of the human understanding, whenever any of the said Laws are mentioned; for, all persons, who have any reflection,