Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself. - John Locke

Dominion of life and death, making war, and concluding peace, p. 13. Adam and the patriarchs had absolute power of life and death,

To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.

"all parents were, by the law of nature, "under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children" they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them."