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 the good will of thoe, who do not think themelves obliged to give any thing in return.

But above all things let us beware concluding with Hobbes, that Man, as having no Idea of Goodnes, mut be naturally bad; that he is vicious becaue he does not know what Virtue is; that he always refues to do any Service to thoe of his own Species, becaue he believes that none is due to them; that, in virtue of that Right which he jutly claims to every thing he wants, he foolihly looks upon himelf as Proprietor of the whole Univere. Hobbes very plainly aw the Flaws in all the modern Definitions of Natural Right: but the Conequences, which he draws from his own Definition, how that it is, in the Sene he undertands it, equally exceptionable. This Author, to argue from his own Principles, hould ay that the State of Nature, being that