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On the inequality

can expel him, they may do it without his having the leaſt Right to complain of their uſing him ill. The Inſurrection, which ends in the Death or Depoſition of a Sultan, is as juridical an Act as any by which the Day before he diſpoſed of the Lives and Fortunes of his Subjects. Force alone upheld him, Force alone overturns him. Thus all things take place and ſucceed in their natural Order; and whatever may be the upſhot of theſe haſty and frequent Revolutions, no one Man has reaſon to complain of another's Injuſtice, but only of his own Indiſcretion or bad Fortune.

By thus diſcovering and following the loſt and forgotten Tracks, by which Man from the natural muſt have arrived at the civil State; by reſtoring, with the intermediate Poſitions which I have been juſt indicating, thoſe which want of Leiſure obliges me to ſuppreſs, or

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