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But the phenomena, corresponding to it, are not given as things in themselves, but in experience alone. When therefore men have had experience enough to observe, that whatever may be the consequence of any single act of justice, performed by a single person, yet the whole system of actions, concurred in by the whole society, is infinitely advantageous to the whole, and to every part; it is not long before justice and property take place. In a word, all requisites for a complete and necessary determination of these actions must be presented to us by experience.