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Equality & Locke
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make them (or any of them] keep it? What should
make them or any of them keep it for two
together? these were questions which it never
occurred to him to ask himself. If it had,
he would have found no answer till he came
to government and then he would have found
if binding contracts by capable of binding
are in question what is meant (and what is a contract good
for that does not bind?) it was contracts that
came from government, not government from
contracts.
Were more human creatures born as Ovid
feigned, and as Locke conceived them to be born
as Ovid feigned them to be born in just earnest, and
Locke in sober sadness, the fate that Cadmus's
children met with, is the fate which it
would have been most natural for Locke's children
to have met with. The mischiefs of bad
faith, the of not keeping bargains
are to be learnt only by experience. To
obey is to give up ones own will to that of another
man: to do that which is disagreeable. What should
reduce a man to do that which is disagreeable to him
at the time but his apprehension (suggested by experience) that
if he does not do that which is disagreeable to him
now, he will be obliged sooner or later to suffer some thing still more
disagreeable to him another time? But in apprehension
of [+] [+]of that sort is what nothing but experience can have produced
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