Euroopa ideede ajaloo eksami kordamisküsimused
the cause; that since men had nothing else left them, they might in slavery have such undeniable proofs of its necessity, that
their consciences might be convinced, and oblige them to submit peaceably to that absolute dominion, which their
governors had a right to exercise over them. Without this, what good could our author do, or pretend to do, by erecting
such an unlimited power, but flatter the natural vanity and ambition of men, too apt of itself to grow and encrease with the
possession of any power? and by persuading those, who, by the consent of their fellowmen, are advanced to great, but
limited, degrees of it, that by that part which is given them, they have a right to all, that was not so; and therefore may do
what they please, because they have authority to do more than others, and so tempt them to do what is neither for their
own, nor the good of those under their care; whereby great mischiefs cannot but follow. The sovereignty of Adam, being
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