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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 own interest, though it be opposite to that of the community at large ; p. 2i : In the largest States, if the abuses of government should, at any time, be great and manifcst ; if the servants of the pcople, forgetting their masterSy and their masters' interest, should pursue a separate onc of their own ; ... if in conséquence of thèse circumstances, it should become manifest, that the risque, which would be run in attempting a révolution would be trifling, and the evils which might be apprehended from it, were far less than those which were actually suflered, and which were daily increasing : in the namc of God, I ask, what principles are those, which ought to restrain an injurcd and insulted people from asserting their naturai rights... ?