Sect. 1.
* 1.1FRom this equality of ability ariseth equality of hope in the attaining our ends, and therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both injoy, they become Enemies.] To understand this, let us look back to what I have said before, and consider men in their Infancy, borne of Parents, and having a necessity to be bred up by them, or else they could never come to be men, with these equalities of abilities, and these hopes he speaks of; all this while they are under their Parents tuition, and parts of their dominion; but, per∣haps, when they come to the age of discretion, they grow intire bodies, and set up for themselves, with hopes of their own, I beleeve, they have; but what then? two of them may have desires, and then hopes of the same things; yea, perhaps, one of them the same desires and hopes with his Father; must he then become an ene∣my to that other, or to his Parent? this would make Men to be beasts, or if they have more wit then beasts, to be by that only enabled to be more barbarous and beastly then Beasts themselves.