ABSTRACT
In the opening paragraph of the early manuscript now known as the Essays on the Law of Nature, Locke endorsed an ancient analogy. A divinity presides over the world by whose command there have been set for all natural objects, from the heavenly bodies to living things, laws appropriate to their natures. Can we then suppose that man alone is exempt from law? There is such a law for man, Locke asserted: the moral law or Law of N ature.'
