and tho' that honour and respect, and all that which the Latins called piety, which they indispensably owe to their parents all their life-time, and in all estates, with all that support and defence is due to them, gives the father no power of governing, i.e. making laws and enacting penalties on his children; though by all this he has no dominion over the property or actions of his son: yet it is obvious to conceive how easy it was, in the first ages of the world, and in places still, where the thinness of people gives families leave to separate into unpossessed quarters, and they have room to remove or plant themselves in yet vacant habitations, for the father of the family to become the prince of it;
Aitzitik, honek guztiak seme-alaben ondasun edo ekintzetan nagusitasunik ezartzen ez duen arren, ez da zaila pentsatzea munduaren lehen denboratan, lasaitasuna jaun eta jabe zenean, jende gutxi zegoenez familia osoek leku batetik bestera joan eta lehenago populatuak ez ziren lekuetan finkatzea zutenean, erreza zitekeela familia burua printze bilakatzea. Bere seme-alabentzat haurtzarotik gobernari izan zenez eta beraiei oso gaitz eginen zitzaienez nolabaiteko gobernurik gabe bizitzea, ez da harritzekoa, seme-alabak heldutasunera iristerakoan beraien onespen adierazi edo adierazigabez aita aukeratu izana;