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 Brutes, and the pernicious good Sene of civilized Man; and equally confined by Intinct and Reaon to the Care of providing againt the Michief which threatens him, he is withheld by natural Compaion from doing any Injury to others, o far from being ever o little prone even to return that which he has received. For according to the Axiom of the wie Locke, Where there is no Property, there can be no Injury.

But we mut take notice, that the Society now formed and the Relations now etablihed among Men required in them Qualities different from thoe, which they derived from their primitive Contitution; that as a Sene of Morality began to ininuate itelf into human Actions, and every Man, before the enacting of Laws, was the only Judge and Avenger of the Injuries he had received, that Goodnes of Heart uitable to the