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assigned for taking up arms.' Lilbnrne makes the same complaint, which 

 moves Thomas Edwards to scorn.- Lilburne, however, represented his time 

 more truly than Edwards.^ The Puritans, then, produced the theory of 

 natural rights. What it means Eousseau has made plain enough to the 

 world. 



1 The Clarke Papers, ed. 0- H. Firth, vol. i., pp. 235, 322. 

 - Lilburno, Just Man's .rustificatioii. pp 11-15. 



2 Edwards, Gaugraena, pt. iii, pp. 16, 20. 



