1. If those speculative Maxims, whereof we discoursed in the foregoing chapter, have not an actual universal assent from all mankind, as we there proved, it is much more visible concerning PRACTICAL Principles, that they come short of an universal reception: and I think it will be hard to instance any one moral rule which can pretend to so general and ready an assent as, "What is, is"; or to be so manifest a truth as this, that "It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be."
1. Baldin aurreko kapituluan aztergai izan ditugun printzipio espekulatiboek, frogatu dugun moduan, gizateriaren baiespen benetan unibertsala jasotzen ez badute, printzipio praktikoei dagokienean askoz argiago agertzen da baiespen unibertsala hartzetik urrun geratzen direla; eta uste dut nekez aurkez litekeela "Badena, bada" printzipioak bezainbateko baiespen berehalako eta orokorra jasoko duen arau moralik, edo "Ezinezkoa da gauza bera izatea eta ez izatea" den bezainbateko egia nabaririk.