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 done, every one may do o: for in that tate of perfect equality, where naturally there is no uperiority or juridiction of one over another, what any may do in proecution of that law, every one mut needs have a right to do.

§. 8. And thus, in the tate of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no abolute or arbitrary power, to ue a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the paionate heats, or boundles extravagancy of his own will; but only to retribute to him, o far as calm reaon and concience dictate, what is proportionate to his trangreion, which is o much as may erve for reparation and retraint: for thee two are the only reaons, why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punihment. In trangreing the law of nature, the offender declares himelf to live by another rule than that of reaon and common equity, which is that meaure God has et to the actions of men, for their mutual ecurity; and o he becomes dangerous to mankind, the tye, which is to ecure them from injury and violence, being lighted and broken by him. Which being a trepas againt the whole pecies, and the peace and afety of it, provided for by the law of nature, every man upon this core, by the right he hath to preerve mankind in general, may retrain, or where it is ary,