Sect. 1.
[IT may seeme strange to some man, who hath not well weighed these things, that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore not wresting to this inference made from the passions, desire, perhaps, to have the same confirmed by Experience.] It is true,* 1.1 the inference from those passions being too weake to prove his conclusion, that every man is at war with every man, we can hardly assent to such an universal proposition concerning a war with all, by all men, the practise of wh••ch was never experimented by any. Let us see his instance briefly: it consist's in three things [that men travel armed,* 1.2 they keep their doores loc∣ked (these two might be spared in my particular, who do neither) and that in his house he lock's his chests; by these, saith he, this man accuseth mankind as much by his deeds as he doth by his words; he saye's so, but I say no. For he accuseth not mankind of this wickednesse, that all the world, and each man naturally is at war one with another, but these mistrust that there are some evill and wicked men in the world; these know men may be ill; by these actions, they expresse it; but he conclude's they are so; for, certainly, as Love and Friendship are mighty excel∣lencies in the conversation of man with man, so hatred