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Quotation from The Rights of War and Peace (Book I) by Hugo Grotius
“Natural right is the dictate of right reason, shewing the moral turpitude, or moral necessity”
The Rights of War and Peace (Book I), Book I, ch. I, §X, trans. A. C. Campbell (1814)
The opening of his celebrated definition of natural law, which continues that such acts are accordingly forbidden or commanded by God, the author of nature.
Citation: "Natural right is the dictate of right reason, shewing the moral turpitude, or moral necessity" — Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (Book I), Book I, ch. I, §X, trans. A. C. Campbell (1814). (id grotius-rights-of-war-and-peace-q3)
Portrait: Portret van Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) Rijksmuseum SK-A-581, Workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Public domain.
