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  1 [Title]|               Chapter II.~Of the State of Nature.~
  2 4      |           we must consider, what state all men are naturally in,
  3 4      |     naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order
  4 4      |         will of any other man.~A state also of equality, wherein
  5 6      |          6. But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not
  6 6      |         liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in
  7 6      |      licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty
  8 6      |   preservation calls for it. The state of nature has a law of nature
  9 7      |        law of nature is, in that state, put into every man's hands,
 10 7      |         were no body that in the state of nature had a power to
 11 7      | offenders. And if any one in the state of nature may punish another
 12 7      |       one may do so: for in that state of perfect equality, where
 13 8      |        Sect. 8. And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes
 14 9      |         what right any prince or state can put to death, or punish
 15 11     |           that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to
 16 12     |          reason may a man in the state of nature punish the lesser
 17 12     |          can be committed in the state of nature, may in the state
 18 12     |      state of nature, may in the state of nature be also punished
 19 13     |       doctrine, viz. That in the state of nature every one has
 20 13     |       the inconveniencies of the state of nature, which must certainly
 21 13     |         their own cases, and the state of nature is therefore not
 22 13     |       much better it is than the state of nature, where one man,
 23 13     |         much better it is in the state of nature, wherein men are
 24 14     |          there any men in such a state of nature? To which it may
 25 14     |      through the world, are in a state of nature, it is plain the
 26 14     |   without numbers of men in that state. I have named all governors
 27 14     |          that puts an end to the state of nature between men, but
 28 14     |          and yet still be in the state of nature. The promises
 29 14     |          they are perfectly in a state of nature, in reference
 30 15     |        were never any men in the state of nature, I will not only
 31 15     |        men are naturally in that state, and remain so, till by
 32 [Title]|              Chapter III.~Of the State of War.~
 33 16     |                     Sec. 16. THE state of war is a state of enmity
 34 16     |        16. THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction:
 35 16     |        man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against
 36 17     |       thereby put himself into a state of war with him; it being
 37 17     |      thereby puts himself into a state of war with me. He that,
 38 17     |         with me. He that, in the state of nature, would take away
 39 17     |       belongs to any one in that state, must necessarily be supposed
 40 17     |         rest; as he that, in the state of society, would take away
 41 17     |          so be looked on as in a state of war.~
 42 18     |       who has put himself into a state of war with me, i.e. kill
 43 18     |    himself, whoever introduces a state of war, and is aggressor
 44 19     |     plain difference between the state of nature and the state
 45 19     |          state of nature and the state of war, which however some
 46 19     |         are as far distant, as a state of peace, good will, mutual
 47 19     |          and preservation, and a state of enmity, malice, violence
 48 19     |    between them, is properly the state of nature. But force, or
 49 19     |     appeal to for relief, is the state of war: and it is the want
 50 19     |     authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without
 51 19     |          a man's person, makes a state of war, both where there
 52 20     |        actual force is over, the state of war ceases between those
 53 20     |        such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive
 54 20     |      authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues,
 55 20     |          imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence
 56 21     |           Sec. 21. To avoid this state of war (wherein there is
 57 21     |        society, and quitting the state of nature: for where there
 58 21     |     there the continuance of the state of war is excluded, and
 59 21     |         they had never come to a state of war: but we see he was
 60 21     |    another hath put himself in a state of war with me, and whether
 61 24     |         is nothing else, but the state of war continued, between
 62 24     |      obedience on the other, the state of war and slavery ceases,
 63 26     |        are thus in their natural state: yet being given for the
 64 27     |       then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided,
 65 27     |          removed from the common state nature hath placed it in,
 66 28     |       and removing it out of the state nature leaves it in, which
 67 28     |          them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed
 68 30     |    removes it out of that common state nature left it in, made
 69 30     |     thereby removed her from the state of nature, wherein she was
 70 36     |         a man, or family, in the state they were at first peopling
 71 37     |       way to alter them from the state which nature put them in,
 72 46     |     extend to, to alter from the state nature had put it in, was
 73 55     |        are not born in this full state of equality, though they
 74 56     |        defects of this imperfect state, till the improvement of
 75 58     | off-spring, during the imperfect state of childhood. To inform
 76 59     |         of that law? I answer, a state of maturity wherein he might
 77 59     |        When he has acquired that state, he is presumed to know
 78 59     |      allows a liberty. If such a state of reason, such an age of
 79 59     |       till he hath attained to a state of freedom, and his understanding
 80 59     |      whether they be only in the state and under the law of nature,
 81 63     |     brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much
 82 66     |          from this obligation no state, no freedom can absolve
 83 71     |          as those who are in the state of nature. Which could not
 84 82     |        made by themselves in the state of nature, or by the customs
 85 83     |    government, as well as in the state of nature, the civil magistrate
 86 83     |         at all necessary to that state. Conjugal society could
 87 85     |        estates; and being in the state of slavery, not capable
 88 85     |         property, cannot in that state be considered as any part
 89 87     |          earth, are still in the state of nature, each being, where
 90 87     |    before shewed it, the perfect state of nature.~
 91 89     |        any number of men, in the state of nature, enter into society
 92 89     |       And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a
 93 89     |      there they are still in the state of nature.~
 94 90     |     those inconveniencies of the state of nature, which necessarily
 95 90     |         persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every
 96 91     |        please, is as much in the state of nature, with all under
 97 91     |      there they are still in the state of* nature, and under all
 98 91     |         whereas, in the ordinary state of nature, he has a liberty
 99 91     |         degraded from the common state of rational creatures, is
100 91     |        being in the unrestrained state of nature, is yet corrupted
101 91     |        such as attend men in the state of nature, there was no
102 93     |        fence is there, in such a state, against the violence and
103 93     |         if when men quitting the state of nature entered into society,
104 93     |    retain all the liberty of the state of nature, increased with
105 94     |          think themselves in the state of nature, in respect of
106 94     |       not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be
107 94     |     unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society
108 95     |       were in the liberty of the state of nature. When any number
109 97     |          he was in before in the state of nature. For what appearance
110 97     |           or any one else in the state of nature hath, who may
111 99     |     Whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community,
112 101    |       that lived together in the state of nature. The inconveniences
113 101    |         ever to have been in the state of nature, because we hear
114 101    |       not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose
115 103    |        of people free and in the state of nature, that being met
116 107    |          suited to their present state and condition; which stood
117 116    |   pretence to the freedom of the state of nature, have no other
118 121    |      again in the liberty of the state of nature; unless, by any
119 122    |       those, who, not being in a state of war, come within the
120 123    |          Sec. 123. IF man in the state of nature be so free, as
121 123    |       answer, that though in the state of nature he hath such a
122 123    |          property he has in this state is very unsafe, very unsecure.
123 124    |        property. To which in the state of nature there are many
124 125    |       Sec. 125. Secondly, In the state of nature there wants a
125 125    |       law: for every one in that state being both judge and executioner
126 126    |        Sec. 126. Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants
127 127    |        all the privileges of the state of nature, being but in
128 127    |        any time together in this state. The inconveniencies that
129 128    |             Sec. 128. For in the state of nature, to omit the liberty
130 128    |     other power a man has in the state of nature, is the power
131 130    |           for being now in a new state, wherein he is to enjoy
132 131    |  executive power they had in the state of nature, into the hands
133 131    |         mentioned, that made the state of nature so unsafe and
134 135    |      than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered
135 135    |       another; and having in the state of nature no arbitrary power
136 136    |         men's propperties in the state of nature, men unite into
137 136    |    uncertainty, as it was in the state of nature.~(*Human laws
138 137    |          quit the freedom of the state of nature for, and tie themselves
139 137    |         worse condition than the state of nature, wherein they
140 137    |      worse condition than in the state of nature, if they shall
141 145    |         before was, still in the state of nature with the rest
142 145    |     community is one body in the state of nature, in respect of
143 154    |         return into the ordinary state of subjects, and have no
144 155    |        in him that does so, is a state of war with the people,
145 155    |          him that uses it into a state of war, as the aggressor,
146 156    |          and acquainted with the state of public affairs, might
147 157    |         remains long in the same state. Thus people, riches, trade,
148 158    |          change from the present state, which perhaps corruption
149 170    |          the use of reason, or a state of knowledge, wherein they
150 171    |          every man having in the state of nature, has given up
151 171    |       which every man has in the state of nature, and which he
152 171    |         every man's hands in the state of nature, being the preservation
153 172    |         he puts himself into the state of war with another: for
154 172    |       capable of any, but is the state of war continued: for what
155 172    |           and puts an end to the state of war, who enters into
156 176    |        who puts himself into the state of war with another, and
157 180    |          putting themselves in a state of war, have forfeited them;
158 181    |         that puts a man into the state of war: for whether by force
159 181    |       supposing we are in such a state, that we have no common
160 181    |         that puts a man into the state of war with another; and
161 182    |         side. His force, and the state of war he put himself in,
162 183    | possessed: for example, I in the state of nature (and all commonwealths
163 183    |         commonwealths are in the state of nature one with another)
164 183    |      satisfaction, it comes to a state of war, wherein my defending
165 184    |       therefore, that men in the state of nature (as all princes
166 192    |    either they are put in a full state of liberty to chuse their
167 192    |        government are not in the state of freemen, but are direct
168 196    |        thereby puts himself in a state of war against them, and
169 205    |  actually putting himself into a state of war with his people,
170 205    |      belongs to every one in the state of nature: for of such things
171 207    |          him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it lawful
172 207    |       who had put himself into a state of war with me, and threatened
173 208    |          overturn a well settled state; the people being as little
174 209    |       people; the most dangerous state which they can possibly
175 211    |      brings men out of the loose state of nature, into one politic
176 211    |          every one return to the state he was in before, with a
177 212    |   altered. Civil society being a state of peace, amongst those
178 212    |         are of it, from whom the state of war is excluded by the
179 218    |      treasure and offices of the state to employ, and often persuading
180 220    |         laws made by it. But the state of mankind is not so miserable
181 222    |       they put themselves into a state of war with the people,
182 225    |         are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy;
183 226    |         is, bring back again the state of war, and are properly
184 227    |  controversies, and a bar to the state of war amongst them. They,
185 227    |        they actually introduce a state of war, which is that of
186 227    |          the people a-new to the state of war, And if those, who
187 227    |        putting themselves into a state of war with those who made
188 232    |         law, puts himself into a state of war with those against
189 232    |          so uses it; and in that state all former ties are cancelled,
190 235    |      force with force, being the state of war that levels the parties,
191 237    |      dignity, and returns to the state of a private man, and the
192 237    |         bring the matter to this state. After considering it well
193 239    |    himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people,
194 239    |       who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay,
195 241    |          hath put himself into a state of war with him, and whether
196 242    |          earth, being properly a state of war, wherein the appeal
197 242    |      only to heaven; and in that state the injured party must judge