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TO J. H. GEAHAM, ESQ. 105
truth can result only from the admission of
universal right.
Right also is essentially connected with
nature and
universality; for, unless independent
and universal, it does not exist :
right is lost in the idea of gift or compromise.
Nature is the law and condition of being :
by natural necessity or the nature of things,
is to be understood spontaneous result, or the
order necessarily resulting from universal
license ; or nature's universal suffrage: tliis
natural condition of things ought
never to
meet a direct opposition, but may be moderated
on universal and fairly ascertained
grounds : such is the legitimate expediencp
of the civilised state.
Moral nature includes reason as an integral
part : human reason is, past all possibility of
dispute, the paramount principle in this
sphere;
since every question, physical or
metaphysical, must of necessity be submitted
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