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 Mind is capable of forming between thee two Principles, without there being the leat Neceity for adding to them that of Sociability, that, in my Opinion, flow all the Rules of natural Right; Rules, which Reaon is afterwards obliged to re-etablih upon other Foundations, when by a gradual Exertion of its own Powers it has at lat tifled the Authority of Nature.

By proceeding in this Manner, we free ourelves from the Neceity of making a Man a Philoopher, in order to make a Man of him; his Obligations are not dictated to him merely by the low Voice of Widom; and as long as he does not reit the interior Impules of Compaion, he never will do any harm to another Man, nor even to any other enible Being, except in thoe lawful Caes where his own Preervation happens to come in quetion, and it is of coure his Duty to