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  1 1      |        had, there being no law of nature nor positive law of God
  2 [Title]|       Chapter II.~Of the State of Nature.~
  3 4      |          the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or
  4 4      |        all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same
  5 5      |           This equality of men by nature, the judicious Hooker looks
  6 5      |         being of one and the same nature? To have any thing offered
  7 5      |          be loved of my equals in nature as much as possible may
  8 6      |        calls for it. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern
  9 6      |      state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges
 10 6      |           all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed
 11 7      |           another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth
 12 7      |           execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into
 13 7      |         violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws
 14 7      |         body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that
 15 7      |           any one in the state of nature may punish another for any
 16 8      |         And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power
 17 8      |          transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself
 18 8      |        provided for by the law of nature, every man upon this score,
 19 8      |         executioner of the Law of Nature.~
 20 9      |       therefore, if by the law of nature every man hath not a power
 21 10     |           the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature,
 22 11     |        every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer,
 23 11     |        grounded that great law of nature, Whoso sheddeth man's blood,
 24 12     |         may a man in the state of nature punish the lesser breaches
 25 12     |         committed in the state of nature, may in the state of nature
 26 12     |       nature, may in the state of nature be also punished equally,
 27 12     |         particulars of the law of nature, or its measures of punishment;
 28 12     |         are founded on the law of nature, by which they are to be
 29 13     |         viz. That in the state of nature every one has the executive
 30 13     |     executive power of the law of nature, I doubt not but it will
 31 13     |          the other side, that ill nature, passion and revenge will
 32 13     |   inconveniencies of the state of nature, which must certainly be
 33 13     |           cases, and the state of nature is therefore not to how
 34 13     |           it is than the state of nature, where one man, commanding
 35 13     |      better it is in the state of nature, wherein men are not bound
 36 14     |        any men in such a state of nature? To which it may suffice
 37 14     |          world, are in a state of nature, it is plain the world never
 38 14     |       puts an end to the state of nature between men, but only this
 39 14     |          still be in the state of nature. The promises and bargains
 40 14     |           perfectly in a state of nature, in reference to one another:
 41 15     |           any men in the state of nature, I will not only oppose
 42 15     |       mentioned, i.e. the laws of nature, do bind men absolutely,
 43 15     |    needful for such a life as our nature doth desire, a life fit
 44 16     |         by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved
 45 17     |          He that, in the state of nature, would take away the freedom
 46 19     |   difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which
 47 19     |          is properly the state of nature. But force, or a declared
 48 19     |        puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon
 49 20     |     appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws,
 50 21     |         and quitting the state of nature: for where there is an authority,
 51 22     |           to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty
 52 22     |        another man: as freedom of nature is, to be under no other
 53 22     |          restraint but the law of nature.~
 54 25     |          and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence:
 55 26     |           the spontaneous hand of nature; and no body has originally
 56 27     |     removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left
 57 27     |     removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath
 58 28     |       something to them more than nature, the common mother of all,
 59 28     |      removing it out of the state nature leaves it in, which begins
 60 29     |      taken it out of the hands of nature, where it was common, and
 61 30     |    property, this original law of nature, for the beginning of property,
 62 30     |          out of that common state nature left it in, made his property,
 63 30     |     removed her from the state of nature, wherein she was common,
 64 31     |           Not so. The same law of nature, that does by this means
 65 36     |           The measure of property nature has well set by the extent
 66 37     |          as much of the things of nature, as he could use: yet this
 67 37     |           from an hundred left to nature, may truly be said to give
 68 37     |         waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement,
 69 37     |           spontaneous products of nature, as any way to alter them
 70 37     |         them from the state which nature put them in, by placing
 71 37     |         against the common law of nature, and was liable to be punished;
 72 40     |           them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we
 73 41     |        the comforts of life; whom nature having furnished as liberally
 74 42     |          raiment which unassisted nature furnishes us with; the other,
 75 42     |       land that is left wholly to nature, that hath no improvement
 76 43     |    received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished
 77 44     |         that though the things of nature are given in common, yet
 78 45     |   themselves with what unassisted nature offered to their necessities:
 79 46     |           those good things which nature hath provided in common,
 80 46     |           to alter from the state nature had put it in, was his.
 81 48     |       again to the wild common of nature, whatever was more than
 82 51     |           in the common things of nature, and how the spending it
 83 52     |            in a discourse of this nature, to find fault with words
 84 52     |           for whatever obligation nature and the right of generation
 85 54     |         Chap. II. That all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed
 86 54     |       observance to those to whom nature, gratitude, or other respects,
 87 56     |       parents were, by the law of nature, under an obligation to
 88 59     |         Is a man under the law of nature? What made him free of that
 89 59     |        state and under the law of nature, or under the positive laws
 90 60     |         of the ordinary course of nature, any one comes not to such
 91 60     |          that duty, which God and nature has laid on man, as well
 92 63     |          him the privilege of his nature to be free; but to thrust
 93 65     |          by any peculiar right of nature, but only as he is guardian
 94 66     |          whether it be the law of nature, or municipal law of their
 95 66     |      ought, by the law of God and nature, to pay his parents. God
 96 67     |           the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their
 97 67     |         side, the strong byass of nature drawing the other way. And
 98 71     |           who are in the state of nature. Which could not possibly
 99 73     |           man's children being by nature as free as himself, or any
100 74     |     executive power of the law of nature, which every free man naturally
101 74     |     executive power of the law of nature, which, as a man, he had
102 74(*)  |         being no impossibility in nature considered by itself, but
103 81     |         being no necessity in the nature of the thing, nor to the
104 82     |        themselves in the state of nature, or by the customs or laws
105 83     |           well as in the state of nature, the civil magistrate cloth
106 85     |          war, are by the right of nature subjected to the absolute
107 87     |          privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other
108 87     |         men in the world, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve
109 87     |         are still in the state of nature, each being, where there
110 87     |          it, the perfect state of nature.~
111 88     |      offences, against the law of nature, in prosecution of his own
112 89     |     executive power of the law of nature, and to resign it to the
113 89     |           of men, in the state of nature, enter into society to make
114 89     |        puts men out of a state of nature into that of a common-wealth,
115 89     |         are still in the state of nature.~
116 90     |   inconveniencies of the state of nature, which necessarily follow
117 90     |         are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute
118 91     |           as much in the state of nature, with all under his dominion,
119 91     |        are still in the state of* nature, and under all the inconveniencies
120 91     |          in the ordinary state of nature, he has a liberty to judge
121 91     |         the unrestrained state of nature, is yet corrupted with flattery,
122 91     |        attend men in the state of nature, there was no way but only
123 92     |    corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history
124 93     |         men quitting the state of nature entered into society, they
125 93     |           liberty of the state of nature, increased with power, and
126 94     |        themselves in the state of nature, in respect of him whom
127 94     |   perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or
128 94     |        one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one
129 95     |       being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent,
130 95     |           liberty of the state of nature. When any number of men
131 96     |          as having, by the law of nature and reason, the power of
132 97     |         in before in the state of nature. For what appearance would
133 97     |          one else in the state of nature hath, who may submit himself,
134 99     |       therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community,
135 101    |          together in the state of nature. The inconveniences of that
136 101    |         have been in the state of nature, because we hear not much
137 103    |          free and in the state of nature, that being met together
138 105    |      father having, by the law of nature, the same power with every
139 106    |       mistake, and think, that by nature government was monarchical,
140 110    |           restraint, but what the nature of the thing, and the end
141 116    |           freedom of the state of nature, have no other reason (bating
142 121    |           liberty of the state of nature; unless, by any calamity,
143 123    |            IF man in the state of nature be so free, as has been
144 123    |       that though in the state of nature he hath such a right, yet
145 124    |          To which in the state of nature there are many things wanting.~
146 124    |       them: for though the law of nature be plain and intelligible
147 125    |         Secondly, In the state of nature there wants a known and
148 125    |         executioner of the law of nature, men being partial to themselves,
149 126    |          Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants power
150 127    |        privileges of the state of nature, being but in an ill condition,
151 128    |          128. For in the state of nature, to omit the liberty he
152 128    |          permission of the law of nature: by which law, common to
153 128    |           man has in the state of nature, is the power to punish
154 129    |      liberty he had by the law of nature.~
155 130    |           execution of the law of nature, by his own single authority,
156 131    |          they had in the state of nature, into the hands of the society,
157 131    |            that made the state of nature so unsafe and uneasy. And
158 135    |         persons had in a state of nature before they entered into
159 135    |        and having in the state of nature no arbitrary power over
160 135    |        only so much as the law of nature gave him for the preservation
161 135    |         obligations of the law of nature cease not in society, but
162 135    |      observation. Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule
163 135    |         conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God,
164 135    |        and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of
165 135    |         to the sacred laws of his nature; in a word, unless presuming
166 136    | authorized judges: for the law of nature being unwritten, and so
167 136    |       propperties in the state of nature, men unite into societies,
168 136    |         as it was in the state of nature.~(*Human laws are measures
169 136    |        law of God, and the law of nature; so that laws human must
170 136    |  according to the general laws of nature, and without contradiction
171 137    |           freedom of the state of nature for, and tie themselves
172 137    |       condition than the state of nature, wherein they had a liberty
173 137    |    condition than in the state of nature, if they shall have armed
174 142    |            and the law of God and nature, have set to the legislative
175 145    |        was, still in the state of nature with the rest of mankind.
176 145    |          one body in the state of nature, in respect of all other
177 149    |       acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the
178 159    |          has by the common law of nature a right to make use of it
179 159    |           this fundamental law of nature and government, viz. That
180 168    |           to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so
181 170    |          whether it be the law of nature, or the municipal law of
182 171    |        man having in the state of nature, has given up into the hands
183 171    |           man has in the state of nature, and which he parts with
184 171    |            as he thinks good, and nature allows him; and to punish
185 171    |          the breach of the law of nature in others, so as (according
186 171    |           s hands in the state of nature, being the preservation
187 172    |         is a power, which neither nature gives, for it has made no
188 173    |                         Sec. 173. Nature gives the first of these,
189 182    |     destruction. His goods, which nature, that willeth the preservation
190 183    |        example, I in the state of nature (and all commonwealths are
191 183    | commonwealths are in the state of nature one with another) have injured
192 183    |            the fundamental law of nature being, that all, as much
193 184    |           away, these are none of nature's goods, they have but a
194 184    |      fantastical imaginary value: nature has put no such upon them:
195 184    |          that men in the state of nature (as all princes and governments
196 186    |        perform it: for the law of nature laying an obligation on
197 193    |         granted, property in. The nature whereof is, that without
198 195    | subjection to the laws of God and nature. No body, no power, can
199 205    |         every one in the state of nature: for of such things who
200 205    |         so much weakness, and ill nature as to be willing to do it,
201 207    |      which to prevent, the law of nature gave me a right to destroy
202 211    |         out of the loose state of nature, into one politic society,
203 225    |          worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies
204 233    |           force with force, which nature allows so freely to all
205 233    |           is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the
206 233    |     punish a superior, is against nature. The mischief which is designed