CHAP. XVI. Of CONQVEST.
175. THough Governments can origi∣nally have no other Rise, than that before mentioned, nor Polities be founded on any thing but the Consent of the People; yet such has been the Disor∣ders, Ambition has fill'd the World with, that in the noise of War, which makes so great a part of the History of Mankind, this Consent is little taken notice of: and therefore many have mistaken the force of Arms for the Consent of the People, and reckon Conquest as one of the Originals of Government. But Conquest is as far from setting up any Government, as de∣molishing an House is from building a new one in the place. Indeed it often makes way for a new Frame of a Com∣monwealth, by destroying the former;