Brutes, and the pernicious good Senſe of civilized Man; and equally confined by Inſtinct and Reaſon to the Care of providing againſt the Miſchief which threatens him, he is withheld by natural Compaſſion from doing any Injury to others, ſo far from being ever ſo little prone even to return that which he has received. For according to the Axiom of the wiſe Locke, Where there is no Property, there can be no Injury.
But we muſt take notice, that the Society now formed and the Relations now eſtabliſhed among Men required in them Qualities different from thoſe, which they derived from their primitive Conſtitution; that as a Senſe of Morality began to inſinuate itſelf into human Actions, and every Man, before the enacting of Laws, was the only Judge and Avenger of the Injuries he had received, that Goodneſs of Heart ſuitable to the
