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of some of his work, should say yt. it was made according to truth, & yt. their Art lay in adjusting them to truth? SHould not understand them better, it they would mention deletion yt? /deletion addition their /addition End or deletion propos'd yt we might see /deletion addition use & in order to yt. shew us their /addition parts together, & Sepertately? Is not ye. same detail necessary to understand Human Nature, & its Ends, & Duty? Will ye. truth, ye. Abstract natures & reason, ye. eternal reasons & fitnesses of things from such a detail? But if it could, what degrees of Virtue & Vice, does truth admit? Truth is single, invariable thing, incapable of intension or remission. But Virtue & Vice have many variations, & therefore cannot be formed on a thing yt. admits of none; for ye. structure must be of ye. same kind as ye. foundation.

But it ^ addition is /addition said yt. deducing Moral obligation from an inward sense, is making it very precarious, & changeable, for if man had been instituted to approve of treachery, malice, cruelty, a quite oposite train of duties, would have been requir'd, or obligatory.

'Tis true yt. Human nature might have been differently made than it is, but it may be doubted considering ye. state of things, whether it could have been better under this Government, who does everything by weight & measure, & who has pour'd Wisdom & beauty in all his Workd; ye. short sketch yt. has been given of our nature, shews how well it is suited to our present condition, & our various connections. We could deletion hardly /deletion addition not /addition have lasted, or at least with