Note 497 — Chapter X · FǼHÐE. WERGYLD.
Reading edition
This is the wild right of every outlaw, the law of nature which resumes its force when human law has been relinquished.
“I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,
And therefore, to revenge it, shalt thou die!”
Hen. VI. Part 2, act iv. sc. 1.
Such is the justice of him who has returned to the universal state of war. Against such a one, Society, if it mean to be society, must on its side declare a war of extermination.