on the good will of thoſe, who do not think themſelves obliged to give any thing in return.
But above all things let us beware concluding with Hobbes, that Man, as having no Idea of Goodneſs, muſt be naturally bad; that he is vicious becauſe he does not know what Virtue is; that he always refuſes to do any Service to thoſe of his own Species, becauſe he believes that none is due to them; that, in virtue of that Right which he juſtly claims to every thing he wants, he fooliſhly looks upon himſelf as Proprietor of the whole Univerſe. Hobbes very plainly ſaw the Flaws in all the modern Definitions of Natural Right: but the Conſequences, which he draws from his own Definition, ſhow that it is, in the Senſe he underſtands it, equally exceptionable. This Author, to argue from his own Principles, ſhould ſay that the State of Nature, being that
