The fear of being robbed by every new succession of robbers, who do not keep even the faith of that kind of society, absolutely required that they should give security to the dividends of spoil, else they could not exist a moment.
Burke discusses the fear of being exploited by successive groups of robbers who fail to uphold social contracts.
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