and thus it is, that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the example of the punishment that attends it from every body, and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tyger, one of those wild savage beasts, with whom men can have no society nor security:
Modu honetan, naturazko egoeran, edonork du erailea hiltzeko boterea; alde batetik, beste batzuk horrelako kaltea egitetik uxatzeko, ez baitago konpentsaziorik heriotza konponduko duenik, eta kasu honetan guztioi dagokigu etsenplua emanen duen zigorra ezartzea, eta, bestetik, gizakiak gaizkile baten ekintzetatik babesteko. Gaizkile honek, arrazoiari zein Jainkoak emandako neurri eta legeei uko egin dienez, gizateria osoari gerra deklaratu dio, bere kideetako baten gainean eragindako biolentzia eta hilketagatik; hortaz, lehoia edo tigrea akabatzen diren moduan deuseztatzen ahal da, edo gizakia berarekin erkidegoan ziurtasunez bizi ez daitekeen beste edozein basapiztia bezala.