from
another.
Men living
together
according
to reason,
without a
common
superior
on earth,
with
authority
to judge
between
them, is
properly
the state
of nature.
But force,
or a
declared
design of
force,
upon the
person of
another,
where
there is
no common
superior
on earth
to appeal
to for
relief, is
the state
of war:
and it is
the want
of such an
appeal
gives a
man the
right of
war even
against an
aggressor,
tho’ he be
in society
and a
fellow
