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Bill Campbell wrote, 
 
>Actually, there was a reference in Blackstone's Commentaries about "that 
>great paternal precept, the pursuit of happiness."  Sort of shows how 
things >have changed! 
 
Thanks for the reference to Blackstone -- it is priceless. I found an excerpt of the
section referring to that "great paternal precept" on a website called "Citizen Soldier."
The web page concluded with an editorial aside referring to Smith's Wealth of Nations,
asserting that Smith had subsequently filled in the remaining uncertainties about the
application of divine law with respect to those putatively inferior matters of human law,
"-- such, for instance, as exporting of wool into foreign countries, --" Wow!
 
Carlos Rodríguez Braun wrote, 
 
>The word "happiness" can be as "weasel" a word as "social". 
 
Precisely what I am trying to ferret out. If happiness is a weasel, it can't be a warm
puppy.
 
Tom Walker 
 
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