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To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the
world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and
still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly
free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common
understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have
embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the
relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal
and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to
any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of
nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.
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