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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. VIII. Of the Rights of Nature. BEFORE we attempt to explain the Rights of Nature, it will be proper to afcertain what is meant by the word Right. Grotius defines it to be " a moral qua- " lity belonging to a perfon, intitlifig " him juftly to have, or to do fome- thing." But the definition of to be more full and precife. He fays, It is moft frequently taken for that moral quality by which we exercife lawful dominion over perfons, or lawfully retain fubje