To preserve Nature’s chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.
[Footnote: Compare No. 1266.]
III.
POLEMICS.—SPECULATION.
Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.