===CHAPTER XXIX : OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE?

DISSOLUTION OF A COMMONWEALTH

If the right of the sovereign also be excluded排除, he cannot?

perform the office they have put him into; which is, to defend?

them both from foreign enemies, and from the injuries of one another;?

and consequently there is no longer a commonwealth.?

Powers divided mutually destroy each other.

And as false doctrine, so also oftentimes the example of different

government in a neighbouring鄰近的 nation, disposeth安排 men to alteration?

of the form already settled.?

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So the people of the Jews were stirred up to reject God, and to?

call upon the prophet先知 Samuel, for a king after the manner of the nations:?

so also the lesser cities of Greece, were continually disturbed, with?

seditions（shan動） of the aristocratical, and democratical factions; one part?

of almost every commonwealth, desiring to imitate the Lacedemonians古斯巴達人;?

the other, the Athenians.

And as to rebellion in particular against monarchy; one of the?

most frequent causes of it, is the reading of the books of policy, and?

histories of the ancient Greeks, and Romans; from which, young?

men, and all others that are unprovided無生活來源的 of the antidote解藥 of?

solid reason, receiving a strong, and delightful impression, of the great?

exploits of war, achieved by the conductors of their armies, receive?

withal a pleasing idea,of all they have done besides;?

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and imagine their great prosperity興旺/繁榮, not to have proceeded from the?

emulation仿效 of particular men, but from the virtue of their popular form?

of government: not considering the frequent seditions(shan動), and civil wars,?

produced by the imperfection of their policy.?

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From the reading, I say, of such books, men?

have undertaken著手/承擔(dān) to kill their kings, because the Greek?

and Latin writers, in their books, and discourses論文/演說 of?

policy,make it lawful, and laudable值得贊美的, for any man so to do;

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before he do it, he call him tyrant. For they say not regicide弒君者, that is,?

killing a king, but tyrannicide誅殺bao君者, that is, killing of a tyrant is lawful.?

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From the same books, they that live under a monarch conceive an?

opinion, that the subjects in a popular commonwealth enjoy liberty;?

but that in a monarchy they are all slaves.?

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★In sum, I cannot imagine, how any thing can be more prejudicial to a?

monarchy, than the allowing of such books to be publicly read, without?

present applying such correctives of discreet謹(jǐn)慎的 masters, as are fit to take?

away their venom毒: which venom I will not doubt to compare to the biting?

of a mad dog, which is a disease the physicians call hydrophobia狂犬病.

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For as he that is so bitten, has a continual torment折磨 of?

thirst, and yet abhorreth厭惡 water; and is in such an estate, as if the?

poison endeavoured to convert使轉(zhuǎn)化 him into a dog: so when a monarchy?

is once bitten to the quick, by those democratical writers, that?

continually snarl咆哮 at that estate; it wanteth nothing more?

than a strong monarch, which nevertheless out of a certain?

tyrannophobia(BaoZheng恐懼癥), or fear of being strongly governed,?

when they have him, they abhor厭惡/拒絕.?