So also did I imagine, that those people who formerly had been half wilde, and civiliz'd but by degrees, made their laws but according to the incommodities which their crimes and their quarrels constrain'd them to, could not be so wel pollic'd, as those who from the beginning of their association, observ'd the constitutions of some prudent Legislator.
Honela ba, iruditzen zitzaidan, aspaldi erdi basatiak izanik pittinka-pittinka zibilizatu diren herriak (euren legeak gauzatu dituztelarik hilketen eta auzien nahigabeak behartu dituzten neurrian) ezin daitezkeela antolatu elkartu zirenetik legegile zuhur baten konstituzioari jarraitu diotenak bezain ondo.