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 impoes upon herelf than that which he precribes to others; or, more probably, on Account of the particular Acceptation of the Word, Law, among thee Juriconults, who, on this Occaion, eem to have undertood nothing more by it, than the general Relations, etablihed by Nature between all animated Beings for the ake of their common Preervation. The Moderns, by not admitting any thing to rank under the word Law but a Rule precribed to a moral Being, that is to ay, a Being intelligent, free, and conidered with a View to his Relations to other Beings, mut of coure confine to the only Animal endowed with Reaon, that is, to Man, the Competency of the natural Law; but then, by defining this Law, every one of them his own Way, they etablih it on uch Metaphyical Principles, that o far from being able to find out thee Principles of themelves, there are very few Perons among us