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A Letter concerning Toleration; Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; An Essay concerning Human Understanding; The Principles of Human Knowledge; An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is unavailable, but you can change that!

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1. It having been shown in the foregoing discourse:1 Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly. That if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly. That if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor positive law of God that determines which
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