Free Political Propositions

support from their fellow human, to see and to choose some sort of fixed or permanent place of residence. And thus we can perceive, from the human's own nature and condition, that he is necessarily driven toward mutual sociability and living-together with his fellow human, first out of need and for greater help, and afterward also out of enjoyment of greater lust and pleasure. And to whatever a human is driven by his own Nature, character, or condition, he can also be said to be fully capable. Doing nothing to the contrary of what only base court flatterers, with a bunch of scholastic pedants, attempt to bring in against this. Judging the people, or humans in general, to be very blunt, irritable, harsh, and cruel by nature, and consequently entirely incapable of helpful and amicable companionship and living-together, they therefore, for the pleasure of all Tyrants, for the sake of shameful enjoyment, condemn and sentence them to a complete slavish coercion and suppression into eternity. But we, with all those who can see the matter and situation of human nature outside all foul passions and base self-interest, know on the contrary that all outstanding base passions of humans have not sprouted and come from their first and simple Nature; but that they are generally so disposed by nature that they, after encountering matters, whether good or bad reception, one less, the other more, according to each one's condition, are driven to some sort of tempestuous passions. And according to whether the overwhelming difficulties are pressing them less or more, for a short or long time, one sees the same passions excel and last less, or more, shortly, or longer. For if it were otherwise, and if the human, out of his first nature or character, were cruel, harsh, irritable, and consequently unsociable like a Wolf, etc., then it must follow that he would have to be and remain such always, like a wolf, throughout his existence. And the contrary of which is notorious to us. Just as it is no less notorious to us that all outstanding and basest passions of humans come from no other ground than that they are generally kept under in a continuous ignorance through violent administration, manifold base artifices, or rather deceits of various superstitien superstitions, and consequently base upbringing. Without whose rescue and deliverance of humans, it will always and forever be impossible for any, even the slightest, salvation and prosperity to be observed, much less found, under any Society or assembly of humans in this world. And for whose rescue, and the obtaining of a people's right connection and growing and flourishing prosperity, I cannot believe at all that any man, gifted and endowed with any true knowledge, will not be able to stand still and, as one says, let God's water flow over God's field.

Just as all outstanding and basest passions of humans can be said to receive their origin solely from the bad administration of the Republic, so too, on the contrary, does all the good of human life depend absolutely on the good administration of the Republic. And I request that this be well penetrated by the observant Reader, so that he may lift up his, as yet, in any way slavish spirit and apply it to government-science: for this is the only, sole track or path to all temporal and eternal happiness, and easy to contain and understand according to the grounds of evangelical Freedom, also separated far from all pretended deep, mostly all deceitful speculations; but simple and straight, and without whose some measure of understanding, and consequently acceptance, no one, by me, can be deemed or looked upon as a righteous human, let alone a Christian.