not only _when_ those Laws take Place, but also _what_ they _are_.
Secondly, the _Government_ is _Dissolved_, if Subjects may go off or on
at pleasure. Thirdly, _Self-Preservation_ is the Plea only of
_Individuals_; and there can be no Colour for the exposing of the
_Publick_ in favour of _Particulars_. What would ye think of a _Common
Seaman_ that in a _Storm_ should throw the _Steers-man Overboard_, and
set himself at the _Helm_? Or of a _Souldier_ that shou'd refuse a
_Dangerous Post_ for fear of being knock'd on the Head, when the _whole
Army_, depends upon the Maintaining of _That Pass_.
_Citt._ Pray'e tell me what it is that you call _Government_, and how
far it _extends_? for you were saying even now, that the _Reason_ of
_all Governments_ is _alike_.
What Government is.
Certain Priviledges essential to Government.
_True._ _Government is the_ Will, _and_ Power _of a_ Multitude, _United
in some One Person, or More, for the Good, and safety of the whole._ You
must not take it that _all Governments_ are _alike_; but the _Ratio_ of
_all Governments_ is the _same_ in some Cases. As in the Instance of
_Self-Preservation_; which is only Pleadable by the _Supream
Magistrate_, in Bar to all _General Exceptions_; for he is First,
presumed in Reason, to be vested with all _Powers necessary_ for the
_Defence_, and _Protection_ of the _Community_: without which his
Authority is Vain. He is Secondly, Oblig'd in _Duty_ to exert those
_Powers_ for the _Common Good_: and he is Thirdly, entrusted with the
Judgment of all _Exigences_ of _State_, be they _Greater_ or _Lesse_;
wherein the Publick Good may be concern'd. Now put the Case that a
Magistrate should make a wrong _Judgment_ of Matters, and misemploy
those _Powers_; it were an Infelicity in the _Administration_; but the
_Sacredness_ of _Authority_ is still the same: And he is a Mad man, that
plucks down his _House_, because it rains in at the _Window_. And in
case of the _Magistrate_, it is not so much _He_, as _They_; for the
_King_ is (as I said before) the _United Power_ and _Will_ of the
_People_. And so Fare ye well.
_The End._
Transcribers Note
1. 'Fraudulant' changed to 'Fraudulent'. (Introdution)
2. 'deux ex machina' changed to 'deus ex machina'. (Introdution)
3. Closing bracket inserted. (The mean ways of promoting their Designs.)
4. Possibly this should be 'Gaols' rather than 'Goals'. (The way of getting hands in and about _London_.)
5. Possibly this should be 'Gaol' rather than 'Goal'. (A Salvo for a Lye.)
6. 'Dop' should read 'Drop'. (Consciences of State or Interest.)
7. 'original' changed to 'Origin'. (PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT 1964-1965- 109.)
_Errata._ (From the original, these errors have been corrected)
Page 1. line 24. for _his_, reade _this_.
p. 3. l. 27. for _Religion_ r. _Religions_;
p.11 l. 25. for _Hands_, r. _Heads_.
p.22. l. 9. for _on all_ r. _on to all_.
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PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
1948-1949
15. John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ ...
(1712) and _A. Mainwaring's The British Academy_ ... (1712).
17. Nicholas Rowe, _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare_
(1709).
1949-1950
22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and two
_Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
1950-1951
26. Charles Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1792).
1951-1952
31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard_ (1751); and
The Eton College Manuscript.
1960-1961
85-6. Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals.
90. Henry Needler, _Works_ (1728).
1961-1962
93. John Norris, _Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call'd, An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding_ (1960)
94. An. Collins, _Divine Songs and Meditacions_ (1653).
95. _An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding_
(1751).
96. Hanoverian Ballads.
1962-1963
97. Myles Davies, Selections from _Athenae Britannicae_ (1716-1719).
98. _Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert's Temple_ (1697).
99. Simon Patrick, _A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude Men_
(1662).
100. Simon Patrick, _A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude Men_
(1662).
101-2. Richard Hurd, _Letters on Chivalry and Romance_ (1762).
1963-1964
103. Samuel Richardson, _Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and
Postscript_.
104. Thomas D'Urfey, _Wonders in the Sun, or, the Kingdom of the Birds_
(1706).
105. Bernard Mandeville, _An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent
Executions at Tyburn_ (1725).
106. Daniel Defoe, _A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees_
(1709).
107-8. John Oldmixon, _An Essay on Criticism_ (1728).
1964-1965
109. Sir William Temple, _An Essay upon the Origin and Nature of
Government_ (1680).
110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
111. Anonymous, _Political Justice. A Poem_ (1736).
112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_ (1680).
114. Two Poems Against Pope: Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to Mr. A.
Pope_ (1730); Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_ (1740).
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Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_
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Roger L'Estrange, _Citt and Bumpkin_ (1680). Introduction by B. J.
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