termine what Law he received, or what Law ſuits him beſt. All we can plainly diſtinguiſh in regard to that Law, is that not only, for it to be Law, the Will of him whom it obliges muſt ſubmit to it with Knowlege of ſuch Obligation, but likewiſe that, for it to be natural, it muſt ſpeak immediately by the Voice of Nature.
Laying aſide therefore all the ſcientific Treatiſes, which teach us merely to conſider Men ſuch as they have made themſelves, and confining myſelf to the firſt and moſt ſimple Operations of the human Soul, I think I can diſtinguiſh in it two Principles prior to Reaſon, one of which intereſts us deeply in our own Preſervation and Welfare, and the other inſpires us with a natural Averſion to ſee any other Being, but eſpecially any Being like ourſelves, ſuffer or periſh. It is from the Concurrence and the Combination our
