§. 92. For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects
the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other
age, to be convinced to the contrary. He that would have been insolent and
injurious in the woods of America would not probably be much better on a
throne, where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all
that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those
that dare question it. For what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what
kind of fathers of their countries it makes princes to be, and to what a degree
of happiness and security it carries civil society, where this sort of
government is grown to perfection, he that will look into the late relation of
Ceylon may easily see.
