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 it is in the tate of nature, wherein men are not bound to ubmit to the unjut will of another: and if he that judges, judges amis in his own, or any other cae, he is anwerable for it to the ret of mankind.

§. 14. It is often aked as a mighty objection, where are, or ever were there any men in uch a tate of nature? To which it may uffice as an anwer at preent, that ince all princes and rulers of independent governments all through the world, are in a tate of nature, it is plain the world never was, nor ever will be, without numbers of men in that tate. I have named all governors of independent communities, whether they are, or are not, in league with others: for it is not every compact that puts an end to the tate of nature between men, but only this one of agreeing together mutually to enter into one community, and make one body politic; other promies, and compacts, men may make one with another, and yet till be in the tate of nature. The promies and bargains for truck, &c. between the two men in the deert iland, mentioned by Garcilao de la Vega, in his hitory of Peru; or between a Swis and an Indian, in the woods of America, are binding to them, though they are perfectly in a tate of nature, in reference to one another: for truth and keeping of faith belongs to men, as men, and not as members of ociety. §. 15.