BOOK III PART II
mission, has produced a separate sentiment
of morality, the case is entirely altered, and a
promise is no longer able to determine the par-
ticular magistrate since it is no longer consid-
ered as the foundation of government. We nat-
urally suppose ourselves born to submission;
and imagine, that such particular persons have
a right to command, as we on our part are
bound to obey. These notions of right and obli-
gation are derived from nothing but the advan-
tage we reap from government, which gives us
a repugnance to practise resistance ourselves,
and makes us displeased with any instance of
it in others. But here it is remarkable, that in
this new state of affairs, the original sanction
of government, which is interest, is not admit-
ted to determine the persons, whom we are
to obey, as the original sanction did at first,
when affairs were on the footing of a promise.