Richard Cumberland, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. vii -- Foreword, p. ix -- A Note on this Edition, p. xx -- A Treatise of the Laws of Nature -- Dedication, p. 3 -- The Translator's Preface, p. 4 -- Names of Subscribers, p. 11 -- Two Introductory Essays, p. 23 -- Essay I. Concerning the City, or Kingdom, of God in the Rational World, and the Defects in Heathen Deism, p. 25 -- Essay II. Concerning the Imperfectness of the Heathen Morality, p. 68 -- A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Laws of Nature -- The Contents, p. 237 -- The Introduction, p. 247 -- Chapter I. Of the Nature of Things, p. 289 -- Chapter II. Of Human Nature, and Right Reason, p. 363 -- Chapter III. Of Natural Good, p. 462 -- Chapter IV. Of the practical Dictates of Reason, p. 481 -- Chapter V. Of the Law of Nature, and its Obligation, p. 495 -- Chapter VI. Of those Things which are contain'd in the general Law of Nature, p. 651 -- Chapter VII. Of the Original of Dominion, and the MOral Virtues, p. 663 -- Chapter VIII. Of the Moral Virtues in particular, p. 684 -- Chapter IX. Corollaries, p. 708 -- Editor's Note, p. 753 -- Appendixes -- Appendix I. A Summary of the Controversy Between Dr. Samuel Clark and an Anonymous Author, Concerning the Immateriality of Thinking Substance, p. 759 -- Appendix II. A Treatise concerning the Obligation, Promulgation, and Observance of the Law of Nature, p. 795 -- Appendix I. Richard Cumberland's Original Dedication to De Legibus Naturae, p. 947 -- Appendix 2. Hezekiah Burton's "Address to the Reader," p. 953 -- Selected Biography, p. 961 -- Index, p. 973.