begin by making over to a Chief the only Things for the Preſervation of which they ſtood in need of his Aſſiſtance? What Equivalent could he have offered them for ſo fine a Privilege? And had he preſumed to exact it on Pretence of defending them, would he not have immediately received the Anſwer in the Apologue? What worſe Treatment can we expect from an Enemy? It is therefore paſt Diſpute, and indeed a fundamental Maxim of Political Law, that People gave themſelves Chiefs to defend their Liberty and not to be enſlaved by them. If we have a Prince, ſaid Pliny to Trajan, it is in order that he may keep us from having a Maſter.
Political Writers argue in regard to the Love of Liberty with the ſame Sophiſtry that Philoſophers do in regard to the State of Nature; by the things they ſee they judge of things very dif-
