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PART I

Human Nature and the ways of GOD to man vindicated, by delineating the general laws to which the principal phenomena in the human system are reducible, and shewing them to be wise and good.

— Nam sic habetote nullo in genere disputandi magis honeste patefieri, quid sit homini tributum natura, quantamvim rerum optimarum mens humana contineat; cujus muneris colendi, efficiendique causa nati, & in lucem editi simus, quae sit conjunctio hominum, quae naturalis societas inter ipsos. His enim explicatis fons legum & juris inveniri potest.

M. T. Cicero de leg. l. 1.¹⁹

Remember man, the universal cause,

Acts not by partial but by gen’ral laws;

And makes what happiness we justly call,

Subsist, not in the good of one, but all.

There’s not a blessing individuals find,

But some way leans and hearken to the kind.

Essay on man, Ep. 4.²⁰