or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, absolute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain, by what has been said before, that the master of the family has a very distinct and differently limited power, both as to time and extent, over those several persons that are in it;
Monarkiatzat hartzen badugu eta bertako paterfamilias monarka absolututzat, orduan, oso botere txiki eta zatikatua litzateke monarkia absolutu horrena. Lehenago esan dugun moduan, familia buruak duen boterea oso zehatza eta mugatua da subirano batenarekin alderatuz gero, bai denborari dagokionean eta bai familia horretan dauden pertsonengan noraino luzatzen den kontuan hartuta.