But this having given occasion to men to mistake, and think, that by nature government was monarchical, and belonged to the father, it may not be amiss here to consider, why people in the beginning generally pitched upon this form, which though perhaps the father's pre-eminency might, in the first institution of some commonwealths, give a rise to, and place in the beginning, the power in one hand;
Eta puntu honetan sortzen ohi da errakuntza, pentsatu izan baita gobernua naturaz monarkikoa zela eta aitari zegokiola; beraz, komeni da aipatzea zeintzuk izan diren gizakiak gobernu modu hau aukeratzera eraman dituen arrazoiak.