But as they suppose reason, forethought, design, and a social union and confederacy among men, perhaps that epithet cannot strictly, in the last sense, be applied to them.

Had men lived without society, property had never been known, and neither justice nor injustice had ever existed.

But society among human creatures had been impossible without reason and forethought.

Inferior animals, that unite, are guided by instinct, which supplies the place for reason.

But all these disputes are merely verbal.] Among all civilized nations it has been the constant endeavour to remove everything arbitrary and partial from the decision of property, and to fix the sentence of judges by such general views and considerations as may be equal to every member of society.