because then there lies open the remedy of appeal for the past injury, and to prevent future harm: but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven. 21. To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end, where there is no authority to decide between the contenders) is one great reason of men's putting themselves into society, and quitting the state of nature:
erasotzaileak bakea eskaini eta errekontziliazioa bilatzen duenera arte, nolanahi ere, eginiko kaltea konponduz eta errugabeari ziurtasuna emanda. Are gehiago, legeak araututakora eta epaileengana jotzea dagoenean, baina justiziak nabarmenki okerreko bidea hartzen badu, eta legeak lotsagabeki desbideratzen badira gizaki edo gizatalde batzuen biolentziaren eta delituen alde, kasu horretan guda egoeraren aukera baino ez da geratzen. Bortxa erabili eta kaltea eragiten den bakoitzean, justizia administratzeko aukeratua izan den horretatik badator ere, beti ere indarkeria eta kaltea izanen da; berdin du legearen izen, antza edo itxurarekin epaitzen bada ere.