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appealing as above to ye. true test of Nature, & by observing ye reasons of ye. variations we find among individuals, we see ye. stability of ye. Rule of Moral obligation, & ye. univerality of ye. sense, & ye. variations only serve to prove it more clearly.

From this We ^ addition may /addition conclude yt. yt. Nature & reasons of things would never have suggested ye. ye. simple idea of Moral Obligations to us, if we had not a sense deletion which /deletion addition capable /addition of admitting it. This so interwoven with our deletion frame /deletion addition nature /addition, yt. we are by it a law to ourselves. We are not forc'd to trace this law by cool deductions of reason, or by subtile enquiries, ye. ye. Astract natures & relations of htings; we need not to seek it in Heaven, nor below; it is within us, ever active on ye. mind, & engraven on ye. heart in ye. large signatures of conscience, Natural Affection, compassion, gratitude, & universal Benevolence.