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32. Ibid., p. 18 ; cf. p. 21. Such is the state of mankind, that persons possessed of unbounded power will generally act as if they forgot the proper nature and design of their station, and pursue their Wn inlerest, though it be opposite to that of the community at large ; p. 2i : In the largest States, if the abuses of governmentshould, at any time, be great and manifest ; if the servants of the people, forgetting their masters^ and tlieir masters* interest, should pursue a separate one of their own ; ... if in conséquence of thèse circumstanccs, it should become manifest, tùat the risque, which would be run in attcmpting a révolution would be trifling, and the evils which might be apprehended from it, were far Icss than those which were actually suffered, and which were daily increasing : in the name of God, I ask, what principles are those, which ought to restrainan Injured and insulted people from asserting their natural rights... ?