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positive laws; when the legislature establishes a certain form of government and succession of princes. Reason first appears in possession of the throne, prescribing laws, and imposing maxims, with an absolute sway and authority. In this case, then, there is no succession as regards time, between cause and effect, but they are simultaneous; and still the law holds good. The universality and necessity of the rule or law would be perfectly spurious attributes of it. I am Dr collins Gana one of the Directors with the UNION BANK OF NIGERIA, Lagos. Now moral philosophy alone contains a code of laws--for the regulation of our actions--which are deduced from principles entirely a priorI. Hence the metaphysic of ethics is the only pure moral philosophy, as it is not based upon anthropological or other empirical considerations. to derive its obligation from those laws of nature, and, in particular, from that concerning the performance of promises. If we do not set out from experience, or do not proceed according to the laws of the empirical connection of phenomena, our pretensions to discover the existence of a thing which we do not immediately perceive are vain.