Letter to Thomas Law [manuscript], 1814 June 13.

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Letter to Thomas Law [manuscript], 1814 June 13.

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Jefferson responds to the ideas contained in Law's pamphlet, "Second Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses," commenting on moral instinct and on different philosophers' conceptions of religion, morality, and their relation to each other.

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