8. And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power, to use a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the passionate heats, or boundless extravagancy of his own will; but only to retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint:
8. Hortaz, hori da pertsona batek besteengan boterea lortzeko daukan modua. Hala ere, ez da botere absolutu edo arbitrarioa, eta ezin da kriminala harrapatzerakoan zehatu momentuko amorruaren arabera eta norberaren nahiaren mugarik gabeko nabarkeria jarraituz, baizik eta, lasaituta, arrazoiak eta kontzientziak diotenei erreparatu behar zaie eta legearen urratzeari proportzioz dagokion zehapena ezarri, hau da, konpontzea eta zigorra dakartzanaren arabera.