§. 114. Though it be a sufficient answer to their objection to show that it
involves them in the same difficulties that it doth those they use it against,
yet I shall endeavour to discover the weakness of this argument a little
farther.
"All men," say they, "are born under government, and
therefore they cannot be at liberty to begin a new one. Every one is born a
subject to his father or his prince, and is therefore under the perpetual tie
of subjection and allegiance." It is plain mankind never owned nor
considered any such natural subjection that they were born in, to one or to the
other, that tied them, without their own consents, to a subjection to them and
their heirs.
