Note 10 — CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEGROE CAUSE, &c.
Reading edition
It is said, Lex est summa ratio. I am sorry that so excellent a rule of law should admit of contradiction; and I wish that this was the only instance of an exception: but, let it be considered, whether our Game laws, our Marriage acts, and, for the most part, the penal laws of this country, cum multis aliis quæ, &c. are not contrary both to reason and nature.