2GC APPENDIX. 



PRINCIPLE V. 



If Success ivaits upon his Enterprises, he urges it to 

 authenticate his Cause. 



There is no argument more popular than suc- 

 cess, because the bulk of men is not able to 

 distinguish the permission of God from his ap- 

 probation : and although it be in itself fallacious 

 and feeble, yet the misery of the conquered 

 denies them the opportunity to dispute it ; for 

 the opposition of the sword will never be con- 

 futed by the bare fist of logic. Nor doth the 

 victor commonly permit any ventilation of his 

 dictates ; for when the body is a slave, why 

 should the reason be free ?* As the soldiers in 

 Plutarch wondered any would be so importu- 

 nate to preach laws, and moral reasons, to men 

 with swords by their sides ;'|' as if arms knew 

 not how to descend to rational inquiries, but 

 were enough justified by an odd kind of neces- 

 sity of their own creating ; like those in Livy, J 

 that all laws are engraved on the hilt of a vic- 

 torious sword, to whose mandamus all other 

 statutes must submit. 



* AaXo? -ETE^fxa?, a i*.iriar\ aoi T^iya. In Pompejo. 

 X In armia jus ferre, et omnia fortium viiorum esse. 



