Excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, Vol. 1 of 2 The printing of the following treatife, as well as was influenced 'by the fame principle, a defire to reconcile a certain de-i gree of difpatch with the neceffary deliberation. The printing was for that reafon before the compofition was finiihed. Some di'fe' advantages have arifen from this circumfiance. The. Ideas of the author became more perfpicuous and digei'ted, as his enquiriesi'advanced. Fithe' longer he confidered the fubjeet, the mo-re'accu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.