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32. Ibid., p. 18 ; cf. p. 21. Such is the state of mankind, that persons possessed of nnbounded 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. 24 : In the largest states, if the abuses of government should, at any time, be great and manifest ; if the servants of the people, forgetting their masters, and their masters' interest, should pursue a separate one 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 suffered, and which were daily increasing : in the name of God, I ask, what principles are those, which ought to restrain an injured and insulted people from asserting their natural rights... ?