The Prose Works
The Prose Works
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But yet (you there is no analogy in the cases. Sheep do not obey sheep, but some .superior nature whidi enforces obedience ; men, by nature equal, owe no obedience to any of their own species, except such as is perfectly voluntary, which they yield in the hope of being repaid by security and happinew. — ^Ed.
Digitized by VjOOQ IC 116 A DEFENCE OF say) ** it is better to keep and defend a bad prince, nay, one of the worst that ever was, than to change him for another ; because his ill goyernment... cannot do the coni- monwealth so much harm as the disturbances will occa- sion, which must of necessity be raised before the people can get rid of him/' But what is this to the right of kings by the law of nature ? If nature teaches me rather to suffer myself to be robbed by highwaymen, or if I should be taken captive by such, to purchase my liberty with all my estate, than to fight with them for my life, can you infer from thence, that they have a natural right to rob and spoil me ? Nature teaches men to give way sometimes to the violence and outrages of tyrants, the ne- cessity of affairs sometimes enforces a toleration with their enormities ; what foundation can you find in this forced patience of a nation, in this compulsory submission, to build a right upon, for princes to tyrannize by the law of nature ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But yet (you there is no analogy in the cases. Sheep do not obey sheep, but some .superior nature whidi enforces obedience ; men, by nature equal, owe no obedience to any of their own species, except such as is perfectly voluntary, which they yield in the hope of being repaid by security and happinew. — ^Ed.
Digitized by VjOOQ IC 116 A DEFENCE OF say) ** it is better to keep and defend a bad prince, nay, one of the worst that ever was, than to change him for another ; because his ill goyernment... cannot do the coni- monwealth so much harm as the disturbances will occa- sion, which must of necessity be raised before the people can get rid of him/' But what is this to the right of kings by the law of nature ? If nature teaches me rather to suffer myself to be robbed by highwaymen, or if I should be taken captive by such, to purchase my liberty with all my estate, than to fight with them for my life, can you infer from thence, that they have a natural right to rob and spoil me ? Nature teaches men to give way sometimes to the violence and outrages of tyrants, the ne- cessity of affairs sometimes enforces a toleration with their enormities ; what foundation can you find in this forced patience of a nation, in this compulsory submission, to build a right upon, for princes to tyrannize by the law of nature ?
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