98. For if the consent of the majority shall not, in reason, be received as the act of the whole, and conclude every individual; nothing but the consent of every individual can make any thing to be the act of the whole: but such a consent is next to impossible ever to be had, if we consider the infirmities of health, and avocations of business, which in a number, though much less than that of a commonwealth, will necessarily keep many away from the public assembly.
98. Gehiengoaren onespena ez bada osotasunaren ekintza kontsideratuko eta gizabanako bakoitza ez badu behartuko, orduan beharrezkoa da pertsona bakoitzaren onespena osotasunak zerbait egin behar badu. Alabaina, ezinezkoa da horrelako oniritzia jasotzea;