A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty.
Argi dago maila eta espezie bereko izakiek, promiskuitatean jaio direlarik, naturak eskainitako abantaila eta gaitasun berberez baliatzeko, elkarrekiko berdinak izan behar dutela, lotura edo mendetasunik gabe, beraien jaun eta nagusi den horrek bere nahiaren adierazpen esplizituaz bata bestearen gainetik jartzen ez duen artean, edo eta izendapen argi eta garbi baten bidez haietako bati subiranotasun eta aginterako eskubide zalantzarik gabea ematen ez baldin badio.