tailieunhanh - TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT

The present Edition of this Book has not only been collated with the first three Editions, which were published during the Author's Life, but also has the Advantage of his last Corrections and Improvements, from a Copy delivered by him to Mr. Peter Coste, communicated to the Editor, and now lodged in Christ College, Cambridge. .PREFACE Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed ofthe papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee. These, which. | TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT BY IOHN LOCKE SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO LONDON PRINTED MDCLXXXVIIII REPRINTED THE SIXTH TIME BY A. MILLAR H. WOODFALL 1. WHISTON AND B. WHITE 1. RI- VINGTON L. DAVIS AND C. REYMERS R. BALD- WIN HAWES CLARKE AND COLLINS W. IOHN- STON W. OWEN 1. RICHARDSON S. CROWDER T. LONGMAN B. LAW C. RIVINGTON E. DILLY R. WITHY C. AND R. WARE S BAKER T. PAYNE A. SHUCKBURGH 1. HINXMAN MDCCLXIIII TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT. IN THE FORMER THE FALSE PRINCIPLES AND FOUNDATION OF SIR ROBERT FILMER AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DETECTED AND OVERTHROWN. THE LATTER IS AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 1764 EDITOR S NOTE The present Edition of this Book has not only been collated with the first three Editions which were published during the Author s Life but also has the Advantage of his last Corrections and Improvements from a Copy delivered by him to Mr. Peter Coste communicated to the Editor and now lodged in Christ College Cambridge. PREFACE Reader thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government what fate has otherwise disposed ofthe papers that should have filled up the middle and were more than all the rest it is not worth while to tell thee. These which remain I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer our present King William to make good his title in the consent of the people which being the only one of all lawful governments he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom and to justify to the world the people of England whose love of their just and natural rights with their resolution to preserve them saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin. If these papers have that evidence I flatter myself is to be found in them there will be no great miss of those which are lost and my reader may be satisfied without them for I imagine I shall have neither the time nor inclination to repeat my pains and fill up the wanting part of my .