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===== The State of Nature ===== In one {{over|shedded|specific}} set of befallings, Locke brooks the name, "state of nature", and in the same way, "law of nature" and "state of war". For this first {{over|quide|phrase}}, these two words together make for a {{over|shedded|special}} hardship in coining an Anglish match. In the befalling of the quide "state of nature", the "state" of a thing is the ''{{over|fettle|condition}}'' in which it stands, or the shape and suchness of the thing as it is now. For this sake, ''fettle'' is brooked to overset this quide. As for "nature", the brooking of the words chosen thus far β namely, some shaping of ''birth'' or ''beginning'' or ''kind'' β seemed to miss the mark or to be unwieldy along with ''fettle''. To say that one is in a ''birthfettle'' seems to mean that they are as a {{over|bairn|babe}}, {{over|sackless|innocent}} and helpless. This is not the meaning of Locke's "state of nature", which is as said before, the shape and suchness of a thing as it is "in nature" or from its {{over|swith|very}} ''beginning'' for the sake of its ''kind'' with no {{over|inbreaching|interference}} from either a {{over|befouling|corrupting}} or an upbuilding {{over|sway|influence}}, such as a {{over|forspelling|declaration}} of war or a {{over|staddling|establishment}} of a {{over|draught|pact}} to frame a new fellowship beyond the "law of nature". For this sake, another word more streamlined and pithy than the unwieldy ''beginning'' is brooked, namely ''ord''. ''Ord'' comes from Old English and bears the meaning of the foremost bit of a spear, but also the beginning or the {{over|wellspring|source}}. Together, these words build the oversetting brooked herein: ''ordfettle''. The same way of wordbuilding is then brooked for "law of nature" and "state of war", which are onset, ''ordlaw'' and ''warfettle'', {{over|beteeingwise|respectively}}.
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