§. 174. He that shall consider the distinct rise and extent, and the different
ends of these several powers, will plainly see that paternal power comes as far
short of that of the magistrate as despotical exceeds it; and that absolute
dominion, however placed, is so far from being one kind of civil society that
it is as inconsistent with it as slavery is with property. Paternal power is
only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political
where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical over such as have
no property at all.
