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 begin by making over to a Chief the only Things for the Preervation of which they tood in need of his Aitance? What Equivalent could he have offered them for o fine a Privilege? And had he preumed to exact it on Pretence of defending them, would he not have immediately received the Anwer in the Apologue? What wore Treatment can we expect from an Enemy? It is therefore pat Dipute, and indeed a fundamental Maxim of Political Law, that People gave themelves Chiefs to defend their Liberty and not to be enlaved by them. If we have a Prince, aid Pliny to Trajan, it is in order that he may keep us from having a Mater.

Political Writers argue in regard to the Love of Liberty with the ame Sophitry that Philoophers do in regard to the State of Nature; by the things they ee they judge of things very