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 for from him every one, who would be as fahionable as French was at court, has learned, and runs away with this hort ytem of politics, viz. Men are not born free, and therefore could never have the liberty to chooe either governors, or forms of government. Princes have their power abolute, and by divine right; for laves could never have a right to compact or conent. Adam was an abolute monarch, and o are all princes ever ince.

IR Robert Filmer ' s great poition is, that men are not naturally free. This is the foundation on which his abolute monarchy tands, and from which it erects itelf to an height, that its power is above every power, caput inter nubila, o high above all earthly and human things, that thought can carce reach it; that promies and oaths, which tye the infinite Deity, cannot confine it. But if this foundation fails, all his fabric falls with it, and governments mut be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance, and the conent of men (Άνϧϛωπίνη ϰτίσιϛ) making ue of their reaon to unite together into ociety. To prove this grand poition of his, he tells us, p. 12. Men  Rh