BOOK III PART II
exposed singly against one whose commerce
is advantageous to them, and without whose
society it is impossible they can subsist. Now
foreign war to a society without government
necessarily produces civil war. Throw any con-
siderable goods among men, they instantly fall
a quarrelling, while each strives to get posses-
sion of what pleases him, without regard to
the consequences. In a foreign war the most
considerable of all goods, life and limbs, are
at stake; and as every one shuns dangerous
ports, seizes the best arms, seeks excuse for
the slightest wounds, the laws, which may be
well enough observed while men were calm,
can now no longer take place, when they are
in such commotion.
This we find verified in the American tribes,
where men live in concord and amity among