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Equity, every Man must carry his own Conscience: So that neither has the Magistrate a Right to direct the private Behaviour of Men; nor has the Magistrate, or any Body else, any Manner of Power to model People's Speculations, no more than their Dreams. Government being intended to protect Men from the Injuries of one another, and not to direct them in their own Affairs; in which no one is interred but themselves, it is plain, that their Thoughts and domestic Concerns are exempted entirely from its Jurisdiction: In Truth, Men's Thoughts are not subject to their own Jurisdiction."— "Let People alone, and they will take Care of themselves, and do it best: And if they do not, a suificient 'Punishment will follow their Neglect, without the Magistrate's Interposition and Penalties. It is plain, that such busy Care and officious Intrusion into the personal Affairs, or private Actions, Thoughts, and Imaginations of Men, has in it more Craft than