He that is master of himself, and his own life, has a right too to the means of preserving it; so that as soon as compact enters, slavery ceases, and he so far quits his absolute power, and puts an end to the state of war, who enters into conditions with his captive.
(*Another copy corrected by Mr.Locke, has it thus, Noxious brute that is destructive to their being.) Sect.173.Nature gives the first of these, viz.

paternal power to parents for the benefit of their children during their minority, to supply their want of ability, and understanding how to manage their property.

(By property I must be understood here, as in other places, to mean that property which men have in their persons as well as goods.) Voluntary agreement gives the second, viz.

political power to governors for the benefit of their subjects, to secure them in the possession and use of their properties.

And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
Sect.174.He, that shall consider the distinct rise and extent, and the different ends of these several powers, will plainly see, that paternal power comes as far short of that of the magistrate, as despotical exceeds it; and that absolute dominion, however placed, is so far from being one kind of civil society, that it is as inconsistent with it, as slavery is with property.