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the gown are too tender for swordmen ; and it 

 may be, he had wit in his anger, who affirmed, 

 that martial law was as great a solecism, as 

 martial peace. 



If the people be once possessed that his aim 

 and intention is fair, they will never expect that 

 the media for attainment of his end should be 

 retrenched by the strict boundaries of law : he 

 manages that rule very practically : * I may in- 

 vade any thing of any man's that threatens cer- 

 tain danger to me, if I suffer him to enjoy it.'* 

 Now he can very plausibly make this periculiim, 

 certuMy or incertum, as shall best suit with his 

 affairs. 



It is a broad liberty that Grotius concedes : 

 ' If I have no other way to assure my life, I may 

 by any means repel any power that assaults it, 

 though just: self-defence being a clear dictate 

 of nature. 'I When life, and liberty, and safety 

 come in question, there ought no consideration 

 to be had of just or unjust, pitiful or cruel, 

 honourable or dishonourable. 



Now when the people have, according to his 



* Rem alienam, ex qu4 certum mihi periculum eminet, citra 

 ellipse alienae considerationem invadere possum. 



t Quare si vitam aliter servare non possum, licet mihi vi 

 qualicunque arcere eum qui eam impetit, licet peccato vacet^ et 

 hoc ex jure, quod mihi pro me natura concedit. S. de Jure 

 Belli, p. 424. Mach. on Li\7, 627. 



