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assigned for taking up arms.[1] Lilburne makes the same complaint, which moves Thomas Edwards to scorn.[2] Lilburne, however, represented his time more truly than Edwards.[3] The Puritans, then, produced the theory of natural rights. What it means Rousseau has made plain enough to the world.

  1. The Clarke Papers, ed. C. H. Firth, vol. i., pp. 235, 322.
  2. Lilburne, Just Man's Justification. pp 11-15.
  3. Edwards, Gaugraena, pt. iii, pp. 16, 20.