A Discourse Upon the Origin And Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
A Discourse Upon the Origin And Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Rousseau
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187 4nd increafing the exterior Extent of our Being, we feldom make Ufe of that interior Senfe which reduces us to our true Dimen« fions, and which feparates from us every thing that makes no Part of us. This is, however, the Senfe we muft make ufe of, if we intend to know ourfelves -, this is the only Senfe by which we can judge ourfelves. But the Dif- ficulty is to give this Senfe its Adivity and proper Extent; to free our Soul, in which it re- fides, from every lUufion of our Underftand- ing...; We have loft the Habit of employing it; it has remained in a State of Inaflion in the Midft of -the Tumult bred by our corporeal Senfatioris, and has been parched up by the Heat of our Pallions ; the Heart, the Mind, the Senfes, every thing has laboured to op- pofe it. Hiji, Nat. T. 4. P. 151. DelaNatttre de Vhomme, DISCOURSE. Pag. 15; (3. ) The Alterations which a long Habit of walking upon two Legs might have produced in Man's Body, the Relations flill obfervable betv/een his Arms and the Fore-feet of Qua- drupeds, i8S NOT E S.
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