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nation, that is civil or policed, to subdue them : and 

 this, though it were to be done by a Cyrus or a Ca?sar, 

 that were no Christian. The second mistaking to be 

 banished is, that I understand not this of a personal 

 tyranny, as was the state of Rome under a Caligula, 

 or a Nero, or a Commodus: shall the nation suffer for 

 that wherein they suffer ? But when the constitution 

 of the state, and the fundamental customs and laws of 

 the same, if laws they may be called, are against the 

 laws of nature and nations, then, I say, a war upon 

 them is lawful. I shall divide the question into three 

 parts. First, whether there be, or may be any nation 

 or society of men, against whom it is lawful to make a 

 war, without a precedent injury or provocation ? Se 

 condly, what are those breaches of the law of nature 

 and nations, which do forfeit and divest all right and 

 title in a nation to govern ? And thirdly, whether those 

 breaches of the law of nature and nations be found in 

 any nation at this day ? and namely, in the empire of 

 the Ottomans ? For the first, I hold it clear that such 

 nations, or states, or society of people, there may be 

 and are. There cannot be a better ground laid to 

 declare this, than to look into the original donation 

 of government. Observe it well, especially the in 

 ducement, or preface. Saith God : &quot; Let us make 

 man after our own image, and let him have dominion 

 over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air 

 and the beasts of the land, &c.&quot; Hereupon De Vic 

 toria, and with him some others, infer excellently, and 

 extract a most true and divine aphorism, &quot;Non fun- 

 datur dominiumnisi in imagine Dei&quot;. Here we have 



