What sort of a protection is this of the general right, that is maintained by infringing the rights of particulars?
What sort of justice is this, which is enforced by breaches of its own laws?
These paradoxes I leave to be solved by the able heads of legislators and politicians.

For my part, I say what a plain man would say on such an occasion.

I can never believe that any institution, agreeable to nature, and proper for mankind, could find it necessary, or even expedient, in any case whatsoever, to do what the best and worthiest instincts of mankind warn us to avoid.

But no wonder, that what is set up in opposition to the state of nature should preserve itself by trampling upon the law of nature.
To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a violation offered to nature, and a constraint upon the human mind, it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures, and instruments of violence, which are everywhere used to support them.

Let us take a review of the dungeons, whips, chains, racks, gibbets, with which every society is abundantly stored; by which hundreds of victims are annually offered up to support a dozen or two in pride and madness, and millions in an abject servitude and dependence.