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PHI LOS 0 P H Y . - Classic Works of Apologetics Online

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314 Subjection to Ci-vtl Government.<br />

S. Government may be too secure. The greatest ty.<br />

rants have been those, \Vho~e titles \\fere the nlost<br />

unque~tionable. Whenever therefore the opinion<br />

<strong>of</strong> right beC0tneS too predon1inant and superstitious,<br />

it is'abated by breaking the {llStom. rl'hu, the Revolution<br />

broke the custom <strong>of</strong> Juccession, and thereby mod.<br />

(Orated, both in the prince and iI! the people, those<br />

l<strong>of</strong>ty notions <strong>of</strong> hereditary right, which in the one<br />

were become a continual incentive to tyranny, and<br />

disposed the other to invite servitude, by undue<br />

compliances and ddngerous conce~sions.<br />

4. As ignorance <strong>of</strong> union and waRt <strong>of</strong> communi.<br />

cation appear amongst the principal preservatives <strong>of</strong><br />

civil authority, it behoves every state to keep its subjects<br />

in this want and ignorance, not only by vigi o<br />

Ian

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