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Excerpt from Institutes of Law: A Treatise of the Principles of Jurisprudence as Determined by Nature With this limited aim, then, the branch of science with the study of which we shall be here engaged, may be de scribed as having for its object the discovery of that law which, by the nature of all rational creatures, and independ ently of their volition, determines their relations to each other and to surrounding existences, in so far as this law is medi ately or immediately revealed to human reason and realizable by human will, under the conditions of human existence in time and space. The validity of the law of nature, it is true, is not, or at any rate cannot be conceived by us to be, limited to humanity, or to humanity under the conditions of time and space. Culverwell accordingly defines it as that law which is intrinsical and essential to a rational creature; 1 and Hegel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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