The Treatise On Human Nature And That On Liberty And Necessity. With A Suppl. To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of His Life And Wr

The Treatise On Human Nature And That On Liberty And Necessity. With A Suppl. To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of His Life And Wr

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Title: The Treatise on Human Nature and That on Liberty and Necessity. With a Suppl. to Which Is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings by the Editor [p. Mallet]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1812 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HUMAN NATURE: ' -r '. OB THE . '... '. FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF POLICY. CHAP. I. 1 iHE true and perspicuous explication of the Laws Natural and Politic (which is my present scope) dependeth upon the knowledge of what is Human Nature, what is Body Politic, and what it is we call a Law; concerning which points, as the writings of men from antiquity downwards have still increased, so also have the doubts and controversies concerning the same: and seeing that true Knowledge begetteth not Doubt nor Controversy, but Knowledge; it is manifest from the present controversies, that they which have heretofore written thereof, have not well understood their own subject. r D 2. Harm I can do none, though I err no less than they; for I leave men but as they are, in doubt and dispute: but, intending not to take any principleupon trust, but only to put men in mind of what they know already, or may know by their own experience, I hope to err the less; and when I do, it must proceed from too hasty concluding, which I will endeavour as much as I can to avoid. 3. On the other side, if Reasoning aright win not consent, which may very easily happen, from them that being confident of their own knowledge weigh not what is said, the fault is not mine but theirs; for as it is my part to shew my reasons, so it is theirs to bring attention. 4. Man's Nature is the sum of his natural faculties and powers, as the faculties of Nutrition, Motion, Generation, ...

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