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Chap. 11. the causes and Original of which I perceive are not so clearly understood by you. For you will have it to be from Nature, whereas it is indeed from a kind of usage and Custome. For after that Men from that rude and solitary life, were forc'd from the Fields into Towns, and began to build Houses and Fortifications, to grow into Societies, and informed Bodies, to make or repell invasions: From that time there did of necessity commence amongst them, a kind of Communion and Partnership as to divers things. They together possess'd such a part of Earth with such and such limits: They had their Temples, Market-places, Treasuries and Courts of Judicature in Common; and (which is the principal bond) their Rites, Statutes, and Lawes. Which things yet our covetousnes, did so begin to love and care for (nor did it therein altogether erre) as its own peculiar. For there is in- Rh