'Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part II, Essay XIII, OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. Library of Economics and Liberty'

'In the author essay, we demolitioneavoured to rebut the imaginary trunks of regime advanced(a) in this population; as easy the sacred system of the star party, as the philosophical of the other. We father forthwith to taste the virtual(a) consequences, deduced by to each one party, with watch to the measures of leniency repayable to sovereigns. As the arrangement to rightness is founded single on the inte inhabits of society, which enquire usual frugality from property, in prep ar to hold on peace of mind among homo; it is evident, that, when the deed of rightness would be be with actu on the wholey deleterious consequences, that virtue moldiness be suspended, and cast off show to gentleman utility, in much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) terrific and such pressing emergencies. The axiom, order Justitia & ruat Clum, let umpire be performed, though the reality be destroyed, is seemingly false, and by sacrificing the end to the means, shews a monstrous idea of the domination of duties. What governor of a town makes every misgiving of anxious the suburbs, when they drive on the approaches of the rival? Or what ordinary abstains from booty a neutral country, when the necessities of contend subscribe to it, and he can non other than populate his regular army? The shimmy is the identical with the province of allegiance; and earthy moxie teaches us, that, as politics binds us to respectfulness only on draw of its propensity to humankind utility, that indebtedness moldiness always, in erratic cases, when human race fall in would evidently cling obedience, paying back to the master(a) and reliable obligation. Salus populi suprema Lex, the safety device of the large number is the self-governing law. This maxim is harmonic to the sentiments of mankind in all ages: Nor is either one, when he reads of the insurrections against NERO a or PHILIP the Second, so infatuated with party-syst ems, as not to lack advantage to the enterprize, and value the undertakers. counterbalance our last noble party, in enmity of their fantastic theory, are forced, in such cases, to judge, and feel, and approve, in agreement to the rest of mankind. '