subject.
Thus a
thief,
whom I
cannot
harm, but
by appeal
to the
law, for
having
stolen all
that I am
worth, I
may kill,
when he
sets on me
to rob me
but of my
horse or
coat;
because
the law,
which was
made for
my
preservation,
where it
cannot
interpose
to secure
my life
from
present
force,
which, if
lost, is
capable of
no
reparation,
permits me
my own
defence,
and the
right of
war, a
liberty to
kill the
aggressor,
because
the
