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The freedom, then, of man, and liberty of acting according to his own will, is grounded on his having reason which is able to instruct him in that law he is to govern himself by, and make him know how far he is left to the freedom of his own wil.

An acre of land that bears here twenty bushels of wheat, and another in America which with the same husbandry would do the like are without doubt of the same natural intrinsic value; but yet the benefit mankind receives trom the one in a year is worth £5. and from the other possibly not worth a penny, if all the profit an Indian received from it were to be valued and sold here; at least, I may truly say, not one-thou

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that, being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. (Yet greed)

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