Origin And Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Origin And Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Rousseau
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Among the passions which ruffle the heart of man, there is one of ahot and impetuous nature, which renders the sexes necessary to eachother; a terrible passion which despises all dangers, bears down allobstacles, and to which in its transports it seems proper to destroythe human species which it is destined to preserve. What must becomeof men abandoned to this lawless and brutal rage, without modesty, without shame, and every day disputing the objects of their passion atthe expense of their blo...od? We must in the first place allow that the more violent the passions, the more necessary are laws to restrain them: but besides that thedisorders and the crimes, to which these passions daily give riseamong us, sufficiently grove the insufficiency of laws for thatpurpose, we would do well to look back a little further and examine, if these evils did not spring up with the laws themselves; for at thisrate, though the laws were capable of repressing these evils, it isthe least that might be expected from them, seeing it is no more thanstopping the progress of a mischief which they themselves haveproduced.
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