The Online Library of Liberty

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• Natural Law.: Part First.
• Chapter I.: The Science of Justice.
• Section I.
• Section II.
• Section III.
• Section IV.
• Chapter II.: The Science of Justice ( Continued )
• Section I.
• Section II.
• Section III.
• Section IV.
• Section V.
• Section VI.
• Section VII.
• Section VIII.
• Chapter III.: Natural Law Contrasted With Legislation.
• Section I.
• Section II.
• Section III.
• Section IV.

Section VII.

If there be no such science as justice, there can be no science of government; and all the rapacity and violence, by which, in all ages and nations, a few confederated villains have obtained the mastery over the rest of mankind, reduced them to poverty and slavery, and established what they called governments to keep them in subjection, have been as legitimate examples of government as any that the world is ever to see.