Where is that practical truth that is universally received, without doubt or question, as it must be if innate?
JUSTICE, and keeping of contracts, is that which most men seem to agree in.

This is a principle which is thought to extend itself to the dens of thieves, and the confederacies of the greatest villains; and they who have gone furthest towards the putting off of humanity itself, keep faith and rules of justice one with another.

I grant that outlaws themselves do this one amongst another: but it is without receiving these as the innate laws of nature.

They practise them as rules of convenience within their own communities: but it is impossible to conceive that he embraces justice as a practical principle who acts fairly with his fellow-highwayman, and at the same time plunders or kills the next honest man he meets with Justice and truth are the common ties of society; and therefore even outlaws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith and rules of equity amongst themselves; or else they cannot hold together.

But will any one say, that those that live by fraud or rapine have innate principles of truth and justice which they allow and assent to?
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