Euroopa ideede ajaloo eksami kordamisküsimused
He confesses that Heyward,
Blackwood, Barclay, and others, that have bravely vindicated the right of kings in most points, never thought of this, but
with one consent admitted the natural liberty and equality of mankind. By whom this doctrine came at first to be broached,
and brought in fashion amongst us, and what sad effects it gave rise to, I leave to historians to relate, or to the memory of
those, who were contemporaries with Sibthorp and Manwering, to recollect. My business at present is only to consider
what Sir Robert Filmer, who is allowed to have carried this argument farthest, and is supposed to have brought it to
perfection, has said in it; for from him every one, who would be as fashionable as French was at court, has learned, and
runs away with this short system of politics, viz. Men are not born free, and therefore could never have the liberty to
choose either governors, or forms of government
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