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 This is the lat Term of Inequality, the extreme Point which cloes the Circle and meets that from which we et out. 'Tis here that all private Men return to their primitive Equality, becaue they are no longer of any Account; and that, the Subjects having no longer any Law but that of their Mater, nor the Mater any other Law but his Paions, all Notions of Good and Principles of Jutice again diappear. 'Tis here that every thing returns to the ole Law of the Stronget, and of coure to a new State of Nature different from that with which we began, in as much as the firt was the State of Nature in its Purity, and the lat the conequence of exceive Corruption. There is, in other repects, o little Difference between thee two States, and the Contract of Government is o much diolved by Depotim, that the Depot is no longer Mater than he continues the tronget, and that, as oon as his Slaves