ion of Law:

"Law is a Rule, whereby men and other creatures are governed in
their actions for the preservation of Common Peace."

Then follows a most philosophic consideration of the whole question,
which seems to us to reveal that Winstanley was groping, and by no means
so blindly as many who succeeded him, after some Natural Law, some
unalterable and immutable principle, which should serve as a basis, as
well as the test and touchstone, of all man-made customs, laws and
institutions. He continues:

THE TWO-FOLD NATURE OF LAW.

"This Law is two-fold: First, it is the power of Life (called the
Law of Nature within the Creatures) which doth move both man and
beast in their actions, or that causes grass, trees, corn and all
plants to grow in their several seasons. And whatsoever anybody
does, he does it as he is moved by this inward Law. And this Law of
Nature moves two-fold, viz., irrationally or rationally."

THE LAW OF THE FLESH.

"A man by this inward Law is guided to actions of present content,
rashly, through a greedy self-love, without any consideration, like
foolish children, or like the brute beasts. By reason whereof much
hurt many times follows the body. And this may be called the Law of
the Members warring against the Law of the Mind."

THE LAW OF THE MIND.

"Or where there is an inward watchful oversight of all motions to
action, considering the end and effect of those actions, so that
there be no excess in diet, in speech, or in action break forth, to
the prejudice of a man's self or others: and this may be called the
Light in Man, the Reasonable Power, or the Law of the Mind. And
this rises up in the heart by an experimental observation of that
peace or trouble which such and such words, thoughts and actions
bring the man into. And this is called the Record on High; for it
is a record in a man's heart above the former unreasonable power:
and it may be called the witness or testimony of a man's own
conscience: and this moderate watchfulness is still the Law of
Nature, but in a higher resurrection than the former. It hath many
terms, which for brevity sake I let pass."

THEIR STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY.

"This two-fold work of the Law within man strive to bring forth
themselves in writing to beget numbers of bodies on their sides.
That power which be