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From this true Saying one may learn to draw / The real Nature of all outward Law. / In ev'ry Instance, rightly understood, / Its Ground and Reason is the human Good; / By all its Changes, since the World began, / Man was not made for Law, but Law for Man.

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— St. Mark, ii. 27 | "On the Nature and Reason of All Outward Law"

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