For
quitting reason, which is the rule given between man and man, and
using force, the way of beasts, he becomes liable to be destroyed by
him he uses force against, as any savage ravenous beast that is
dangerous to his being.
182. But because the miscarriages of the father are no faults of the
children, who may be rational and peaceable, notwithstanding the
brutishness and injustice of the father, the father, by his
miscarriages and violence, can forfeit but his own life, and
involves not his children in his guilt or destruction. His goods which
Nature, that willeth the preservation of all mankind as much as is
possible, hath made to belong to the children to keep them from
perishing, do still continue to belong to his children. For
supposing them not to have joined in the war either through infancy or
choice, they have done nothing to forfeit them, nor has the
conqueror any right to take them away by the bare right of having
subdued him that by force attempted his destruction, though,
perhaps, he may have some right to them to repair the damages he has
sustained by the war, and the defence of his own right, which how
far it reaches to the possessions of the conquered we shall see
by-and-by; so that he that by conquest has a right over a man's
person, to destroy him if he pleases, has not thereby a right over his
estate to possess and enjoy it.
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