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On the inequality

but turn his Head another Way; I am already buried in the Foreſt, my Fetters are broke, and he never ſees me again.

But without inſiſting any longer upon theſe Details, every one muſt ſee that, as the Bonds of Servitude are formed merely by the mutual Dependence of Men one upon another and the reciprocal Neceſſities which unite them, it is impoſſible for one Man to enſlave another, without having firſt reduced him to a Condition in which he cannot live without the Enſlaver's Aſſiſtance; a Condition which, as it does not exiſt in a State of Nature, muſt leave every Man his own Maſter, and render the Law of the ſtrongeſt altogether vain and uſeleſs.

Having proved that the Inequality, which may ſubſiſt between Man and Man in a State of Nature, is almoſt imperceivable, and that it has very little

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